An unexpected visit

An Unexpected Visit

Chapter 2: A Week After Arrival (v2)

By: Porqupine

The day starts out differently than they have the past week. You wake up without pain. Nothing hurts. It’s a miracle. You feel really good, until you open your eyes and remember what had happened. And that it is still happening.

You’re still lying in the hospital bed and you see that the unicorn has indeed not left the room.

It’s wide awake and now you notice that there’s a piece of parchment floating in front of her. Just floating, nothing is touching it, except for the quill, which is also floating and writing down something on the parchment. The floating items seem to have a slight glow to them and so does the horn. You quickly see the connection between the two. When the horn glows she’s doing magic, you finally realise.

"What are you writing?" You ask and the unicorn looks up in surprise.

"Oh you’re awake. Good." She replies. "I’ve got a few questions for you if you don't mind. Can I?"

"Sure, ask away." You say without a second thought.

"Okay where should I start…" It mumbles and then all hell breaks loose.

"Who-are-you-what’s-your-name-how-did-you-get-here-why-are-you-here-where-did-you-come-from…" And it just kept going on like this for about five minutes, until she realised I hadn’t actually answered any of her questions.

"Slow down please." You plead. "I can’t keep up with you."

"I’m sorry." It said. "I’m just so excited. I’ve never seen your species before, so I guess I just want to know all about you."

"Okay, well I already told you that I forgot my name, so I don’t really know who I am. I do know that I’m not from Equestria, but that I am from Earth." you say, doing your best to answer her questions from the beginning.

"Earth… hmm… Where have I heard of that planet before?" The unicorn is frantically writing on the parchment and you can see she’s thinking real hard.

It seems that it knows just as much about Earth as you know about Equestria. Suddenly you realise that you have a question for it and you decide it is a good time to ask it, the unicorn being quite and all.

"So what are you? Male or female?" you ask, you already guessed female with her voice being such a high pitch.

The unicorn responds rather offended. "I am a mare of course. Isn't it obvious?" She looks at you as if you're the dumbest creature on the planet.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. It's just that I'm not used to being around talking animals."

Again she looks at you, but now with anger in her eyes. "I am not an animal! I am a PONY, for Celestia's sake! What's WRONG with you!"

"Sorry, sorry, I'm so sorry that I said that. I really didn't mean it like that. But you look so much like the ponies we have on my planet, but they can't speak, or do magic. In my world they really are animals." You try to talk yourself out of the awkward situation you've gotten yourself into.

"Hmpf..." She replies with her eyes pointed to the far wall.

You still hear the scribbling of quill on parchment, but the silence seems to stretch out in front of you. It just keeps on extending and you can barely take it any more.

"So..." You're surprised she spoke again. "Which are you?" She asks.

It takes a while before you understand what she means, but then you realise that she's referring to the question you asked her ten minutes earlier.

"I am a male, or as we say it on Earth, a man or a guy."

"Interesting..." You hear her softly say as she focuses on the parchment again.

"How did you get here?" She asks you.

You think about it but you really don't know. How did you get here? You think about what happened before you got here. Your house was trashed, the window was mysteriously missing, and you fell down, twice. Then you remember the piece of paper, with the strange markings.

"I-I'm not exactly sure of how I got here." you say to Twilight, you remembered her name. "But I do remember seeing something before I woke up here."

"What was it?" She's looking really interested in your story.

"I'm not exactly sure but it looked like a piece of paper or parchment with strange markings on them, it started to glow just before I fell. I can't exactly remember what they looked like but I have a rough idea."

"Please." She says. "Draw them for me." She gently floats a quill and a piece of parchment your way.

You really have to focus on your memory but you manage to make a rough copy of the markings. A star-like figure in the middle, surrounded by five other thingies. You don't exactly remember what they looked like, but you think you've got it about right.

"Oh. My. Celestia." You hear Twilight say.

"What's wrong." you ask, feeling rather concerned about the reaction she got to your drawing.

"Do you know what this is?" she asks you, but doesn't wait to tell you, not that you know what it is. "You made a drawing of the Elements of Harmony. Do you know what that means?" again she doesn't wait for your answer. "You were brought here by magic, not from your world but from this one. Somepony or something wanted to get you here."

"This is important. I need to inform the Princess immediately." Twilight states and then just trots out of the room.

You are left baffled by what just happened. Why would any Princess want to know about anything, why not inform the King? But if there is a Princess that means that this is a kingdom. You wonder how a kingdom could be so technologically advanced. And they have magic for Pete's sake. Why would you ever need to have technology?

A few minutes after Twilight ran out of the room Doctor Feel-good walks through the door.

"How are you feeling today?" he asks you.

"I feel really good now actually." you say with a happy voice.

"Good, I think I will allow you to try and stand again, but do it carefully." the doctor sounds serious so you decide that it is probably wise to take it slow.

You sit yourself up before you continue. It feels good to sit straight again and you start to stretch your back. You still feel a small pain in your lower back, but to stretch out like this feels heavenly.

"Oooh man that feels good." You let out a loud contented sigh as you hear your joints make a little 'pop' sound.

You continue with moving your legs to the right side of the bed and you feel the floor touch the bottom of your feet.

"Sorry, most of my patients aren't quite as tall as you are." the doctor says, but you don't really mind and you slowly shift you weight forward. It's been a week since you last stood on your legs and they feel weaker than they used to. You slowly start to rise, holding the little desk at your bedside with your mostly uninjured right hand. It feels great to be standing up straight again. The familiar feel of your legs comfort you and you start to walk around the room. When you reach the other side of the bed you notice how small doctor Feel-good actually is. The top of his head barely reaches your chest, but since he also has a horn, which reaches up to your chin, he looks taller than he actually is.

The doctor starts walking toward the door.

"Want to walk around a bit? I can show you the hospital if you like, you seem well enough."

You don't only seem well enough, you feel great too. You think you'll just go with the flow and do whatever you're asked.

You walk toward the door and the doctor opens it, using magic, which still creeps you out a bit. At first you thought the door was electric until you noticed the glow around doctor Feel-Good's horn and around the door nob.

You have to bend your back forward a bit in order to go through the door, it's designed for ponies, lower than you're used to, but also wider than you're used to. Even when you bend your back you almost hit your head. There's still a small yellow mark on your forehead, reminding you of the past week and how you hit your head. You wouldn't want to make that blue again.

You walk into a hallway which is also designed for ponies. Rather low hanging ceiling and much more space between the walls. Of course everything is designed for ponies, you're in 'ponyland' for godsake, but it all still manages to surprise you how everything is so well adapted to the ponies. Or well, how the ponies adapted everything to them, just like humans did, but it seems like the ponies are doing a much better job at it.

As you walk down the hallway it appears that the hospital is abandoned. You can only hear your own and the doctor's footsteps, or 'hoof-steps', whatever.

"Is this place abandoned?" you ask him carefully, as not to upset him.

"Oh it certainly is not. We just put this wing in lock down since we weren't sure if you're a threat." the doctor replied.

You don't have to think long about why they would see you as a threat. You're at least a foot taller than them, maybe even two. They've obviously never encountered a human being before so you're an alien to them. Suddenly you feel extremely lucky to have been brought here and not another earth-like planet. Humans wouldn't react well to aliens, but these ponies, they've been very nice to you and they seem very friendly.

"Thank you." you say to the doctor.

"For what?" He asks. "I only treated you like any other patient, as is my job to do so."

"You've all been so nice to me, although I am an alien to your kind."

"You are welcome I guess then. But you seem to forget that there are three different species of ponies on this planet and I have to treat all of them equally. We even have other creatures, who aren't ponies, which I will treat just as well. We're all equal." these words the doctor said are something you can only imagine Jesus saying back on Earth.

"I can see that you've accepted our kind, so I'm asking you now. Would you like to go outside?" The doctor said this in such a way that you had to think it over, but you already made up your mind.

"Yes, I would love to." you really did want to go outside and get some fresh air, but you wonder why the doctor seems so on edge about your decision. You walk through a set of doors, and quickly find out why the doctor is nervous. As the doors close behind you every pony stops dead in their tracks and stare at you. There's even one pony who was looking at the floor and she walks straight into another paralysed pony.

"Just keep walking." The doctor almost whispers at you.

So you just continue walking, feeling very awkward about it. You can feel the eyes of the ponies you've passed by burn into the backside of your head, but you don't dare look behind you.

"Turn left here and then the third lane right."

Everywhere you pass all work stops and all eyes focus on you. You don't like it one bit. Was it even a good decision to go outside?

After having walked through the Labyrinth of hallways you finally spot what you think has to be the main entrance. You know your guess is correct as the doctor leads you through them, out into the open air.

It feels wonderful to be outside. The air smells fresh and the temperature feels perfect. You notice that you closed your eyes because of the great sensation, but when you open them you're up for a surprise.

"SURPRISE!" You can't see which of the fifty ponies said it, but you can guess which. It's probably the only pony that is moving, not only moving though, she's jumping around like a little kid on Christmas morning who has accidentally drank his fathers coffee.

You see she's bright pink with a little bit darker pink mane and tail. The other thing about her is that her mane and tail are fluffy, very fluffy. They look like cotton candy from this distance.

All the other ponies are just staring at you with big, and I mean BIG, eyes. You have no idea what you should do, but you feel rather awkward just standing here.

"Uhm... hi?" You say with a little vibrato in your voice.

"HELLO!" The pink one replies full with excitement. "Wooow-You-look-weird-so-tall-such-a-flat-face-how'd-THAT-happen-Did-ya-walk-into-a-wall-or-did-the-wall-run-into-you?"

She was so full of energy you didn't know what to do. You just look at all the other ponies, who obviously didn't expect you to stand there. Then you spot the purple unicorn, Twilight, walk out of the crowd toward you.

"Don't mind Pinkie, she's always like this."

Oh dear god, how can anybody ever be like that for even more than a millisecond?

"Listen up everypony." Twilight started. "This here is a Human, from Earth. I'm still trying to find out how he got here, but before I figure that out, I want you all to be kind to him. He had quite a rough first week here, so I would like to make it up to him."

"Don't worry." she says personally to you. "They'll get used to you soon enough, just give it a couple of days."

You're happy about the reassurance, although you aren't too sure if this can all work out. You thought saw a few nasty faces in the crowd before, although now every one of these ponies just looked at you with great interest.

"So what do we call you?" one of the ponies asked from within the crowd.

"I-uhm.. I don't know really, you can just call me 'Human' for now, until I can remember my name." You answer, although you're not too sure you want to be called 'human' everyday. It would feel like you're an animal, like a dog, or something similar.

"How did you get here?" another pony asks you, but since it seems like you've answered all these questions already, so you decide to just tell them everything you've told Twilight.

After about an hour of talking or so you notice that the ponies look tired as much as that is even possible, but hey, you're in a world with talking, magic-doing, unicorns and ponies. So you've figured that they've had enough of your talking and you're about to finish anyway.

"...So that's what happened, and now you all know." You end your story, but unexpectedly you're soon bombarded with questions you can't answer. Haven't they listened to a single thing you've said? You decide the best thing to do is just to ignore them and you walk toward Twilight, who's gone back to the crowd to listen to your story.

"That was quite the story." she says as you come closer.

"Well you've already heard all of it though." you reply.

"It was still interesting to listen too. A story is never told the same way twice.'"

You liked talking to this pony, although she freaked you out the first time you saw her. And you're still a bit uncomfortable with the potential skewering.

"Let me introduce you to my friends." Twilight offers as she starts to walk further through the crowd, which has started to thin out, thankfully, as ponies start to walk back toward there homes. Or at least so you think. You follow along and all ponies move out of your way. You still look rather intimidating to them and you can't blame them. But it still feels wrong to have them move away from you as if you are royalty. As you reach the back of the crowd the first thing you notice is the pink pony that was so overly excited when you walked out of the hospital.

'Don't, please don't tell me that's one of your friends.' You think pleadingly.

"These are my very best friends." Twilight says and just like you feared the pink one is part of it.

"This is Applejack." She says, pointing to an orange mare with yellow mane and tail. You also see that she has three apples painted or her ass. The only really strange thing is that she's wearing a hat and that it doesn't fall off. You wonder how she manages that.

"Applejack here was the one who found you, together with Rarity." Now she's pointing to a white mare with the most stunningly styled mane you've ever seen. Coloured a deep purple and perfectly contouring her face. You gulp audibly as you try to move your eyes away from the beauty. You notice that all the ponies have something painted on their butt and so does Rarity. She has three diamonds. Why do all those things seem so familiar to you?

"This here is-" she started.

"PINKY! I'm Pinky." The pink one, who welcomed you so hyperactively, said, now bouncing up and down again. You already know that she's going to be really tiring.

"Anyway... moving on." Twilight continues, while ignoring Pinky's rambling.

"This here is Fluttershy." She gestured to a yellow mare with a pink mane. You think she has the most adorable look on her face.

"hi my name is [size=8]Fluttershy[/size]" it sounds like she's trying to say something but you can't really hear what it is.

"Sorry, what was that." you ask her.

"Oh don't mind that." Twilight interrupts. "Fluttershy's always like that. She probably just has to get used to you."

"And finally we have-. Hey, where's Rainbow Dash?" apparently there's one more pony you need to be introduced to, but she's not here. Oh well, it's not like you really mind.

You hear a soft whistling sound come from behind you, which is rapidly getting louder. Before you have time to think you feel something crash into you back.

You fall forward and almost crush Rarity, who just manages to get out of the way, and you fall to the ground... again...

only this time you are able to catch yourself with your arms.

"The fuck was that!" you say out loud.

"Well now we know where Rainbow Dash is." Twilight says matter-of-factly.

You turn around and find yourself staring into two big dark pink eyes. Then you feel four hooves, well they must be hooves since ponies don't have feet, land on you chest.

"Didn't see that one comin' now did ya." The blue pony said with a smirk and a voice that sounded a little hoarse.

You guess that this is Rainbow Dash and you understand why they'd call her that. Her mane could only be described as an actual rainbow. The colours were perfect and seemed to shift as she moved. You know that it's a she but you think she resembles what you'd call a tomboy back home.

After about ten seconds she stands up straight again and then you notice that she has wings, WINGS. How magical can a place be. You remember from TV and history class that on Earth they'd be called a pegasus. You wonder if it might be the same here, just like with the unicorns.

"Are you a pegasus?" You ask her.

"Well of course I am. And I'm the fastest pegasus in all Equestria at that." She says with a big smile on her face.

She bends her knees, then kicks off, pushing the wind from your lungs. She leapt about two meters up into the air and then she spreads her wings, as if to display them to you. She slowly glides back down to earth, as you start to get up again.

"Well now that you've met my friends, how about we go and give you a tour of the village?" Twilight offered.

"A TOUR, A TOUR, I LOVE TOURS!" This pinky was going to make you insane, if you weren't already. Is it possible to go insane when you're insane? You don't know, but you also don't want to find out.