Too young to die

The sun awoke me from my slumber, it's peaceful rays slid across my face, causing me to crack open my eyes. The first thing I did was stretch and yawn, I noticed an ache in my lower back, probably from the rough and coarse bark. My mind still muddled from sleepiness, barely registered that I put my feet over the side of the branch like I was getting out of bed. I felt nothing under my feet, and I immediately came to my senses and brought my feet back over. 'That was close, would've hated to fall, welp nothing like a morning shock to get you up for the day.' I thought to myself.

My stomach grumbled, seems that worm didn't do much to alleviate my hunger. Okay, so I have half of step three done, and step four done, I only found shelter, not any food. I was about to climb down the tree when I remembered my wings, I looked over them, finding they had black tips, along with the brown I saw earlier, almost like my hair... anyways, I spread them to their fullest extent, and jumped, I tried to grab the air with the wings, I began to glide, but almost instantly lost my speed and fell the remaining feet.

I smiled, these wings would be of great use later on, my smile disappeared, but how did I get them? I shook the thought as my stomach growled again. I heard once on Bear Grylls you can eat certain flower pedals, I don't remember what you had to do if you wanted to test a flower edibleness, but I remember a few that are edible, "Roses, Bee balm, Borage and Marigolds." I listed off out loud, and just as luck would have it, I saw a patch of golden flowers.

I walked over to them, they seemed to be Marigolds, according to a reference guide I skimmed through one time, they had a spicy and tangy flavor. I picked one, and put it in my mouth, before swallowing I tested the flavor, sure enough, these were Marigolds. Okay so step three is complete along with four, now just one and two, those are going to be hard, I already found Ponyville, but to meet the ponies, that's a whole different story, I thought for a minute before an idea came to me, if they see me eating flora, would they think I'm a herbivore? Seems legit, but I would have to keep eating anything suspicious to a minimum.

I counted the remaining flowers, 43 possibly more, I began to get picking...

After countless hours, more like one hour, I gathered them all, when they were all in my hands, I just stashed them in my pockets, better than trying to make a pack out of animal hide, hell, I have no idea how to stitch or sew, even then I don't have any weapons. The thought hit me like a rock, no weapons, no defense, no offense, and that could mean the death of me. It was then that my fortune ran out, because the timber wolves came back then, intent on killing their now avian prey that escaped earlier.

I heard them before I saw them, they growled at me, before pouncing out of the surrounding foliage, as soon as my brain registered the threat, I was sprinting, with blood thirsty wolves on my heels. It then I decided now would be the perfect time to test the fullest extent of my wing's ability. I pumped my wings trying to raise myself while I ran, I was soon approaching a river, which ran like a scar through the forest, it was fast approaching, my breath was starting to become ragged as I felt my legs burn.

When I hit the bank, I jumped, flapping my wings trying to raise off the ground away from the predators that wanted my flesh. Now my wings started burning, I carried myself further even though fatigue burned in my wings, sweat began to form on my brow, my wings gave out and I fell to the ground, luckily the jump propelled me far enough to reach the other side, if it didn't I'd hate to think what would happen. I spun around panting and flashed the timber wolves, they really wanted my flesh...

My stomach growled again, reminding me I only ate one flower petal, I counted the petals, I had about 43x6 I did the math in my head, I had about 258 petals, if my math was correct. I ate about 38, before feeling slightly satisfied, if you think about it, 38 Marigold petals, isn't very much food. The only thing keeping me from eating more is the fact I need to preserve these as long as I could, I may be looking at being shunned from a community, which if I play my cards right will help me.

The wolves backed off snarling and growling, I smiled, and continued my trek towards town, my smile instantly vanished as if it were never there, my wings wouldn't close, in fact I couldn't get them to move at all. "Dafuq?" I asked myself, why wouldn't they close?! I tried to push them back in but they were standing out erect... holy shit, do wing boners also apply to humans who in-explicitly grow wings? I facepalmed and muttered under my breath, "Mother of god." I continued my walk towards the direction of the town, desperately wishing my wings would close.

My mind wandered, how would I meet the ponies? Surely they would be open and not hostile? How should I approach? I couldn't decide so I muttered out loud, "Meh, looks like I'll burn that bridge when I come to it." Almost too soon I saw the trees and shrubbery thinning out, and the light growing brighter. I was about to walk past the treeline when the worst thing at the worst possible moment at the worst time in the history of the world and the whole time encompassing my life...

I step on a manticore's paw.

I was so busy trying to get out of the god-forsaken forest I hadn't bothered to see where I was stepping. Turns out, right on the paw of a tired and seemingly very hungry manticore. Man, fate was just out to get me wasn't it? Well, looks I burned the bridge, so how will I cross it? By running out screaming while a rampaging manticore chases me. It was then my wing boner decided to end, thankfully, but it didn't help that a ton of ponies, saw a what may look like a monkey with wings and multicolored clothing running out of the Everfree with a giant manticore chasing it.

It gave an ear-splitting roar, which dazed me for a second before I took a leap, and pumped my wings. Luck was on my side as I managed to scramble up the side of a house, the manticore pounded the building, trying to dislodge me from where I was standing, it soon got a better idea in that primitive mind of it. It opened its tiny bat wings and began to somehow miraculously flew up on the roof, which in turn caused it to collapse. The cat was disorientated when the roof fell, I took this chance to shove past the Pegasus mare and dash out the front door.

As I ran out the door I was met by a few ponies, one of them was Twilight Sparkle, I tried to make a run for it, but a cyan mare tackled me to the ground, of course Rainbow Dash would go after the avian. Twilight picked up the manticore in her purple aura and launched it out to the Everfree. A very disheveled mare walked out of her house, and stared at it while it collapsed. I was brought back to what had pinned me when Rainbow decided to put a hoof to my forehead. This time I registered her words, "What are you? A winged hairless monkey?" My panicked mind barely heard her and I responded, with a clear choice of words, "Get the hell off me!" She was enveloped in a purple aura, and was lifted off of my chest.

I instantly checked myself for any damage, "Head? Check. Genitals? Check. Okay, I think I'm fine." I sat up only to come face-to-face with a certain angry lavender mare. I chuckled, scratching the back of my head, finding a sudden interest in the ground, "Heh, erm, hello?" I said rather nervously, never though it'd be this hard to say hello to my second favorite character on the show. My favorite was Luna, dayum she was a baws. She glared at me and asked, "Just what are you? And why did you bring a manticore into Ponyville?" I gulped before answering, "It was an accident, I swear, and um I'm a human, just I have no idea where I got the wings! Humans aren't supposed to have wings! And, I don't know how I got here eit-..." She cut me off by sticking a hoof in my mouth, which tasted kinda disgusting.

"I only needed you to answer those two, now if you'll follow me." I could see glee radiating off of her, along with anger. Would she really be that happy to see a new species, with intelligence matching her own? I guess I would, but they have dragons, diamond dogs, and many other weird species that have equal intelligence, so why so excited? I slowly got up, Twilight walked over to the Pegasus, who's house was demolished and said, she'd pay for the damages. I looked at the gathered ponies, Rainbow, Twilight, Lyra, Berry Punch, the Pegasus, Big Mac and Applejack.

Rainbow flew up to Twilight and said, "Twilight, we just can't have this thing," I noticed that and said, "Hey!" She continued, "wandering around town, even if it is in your care, you know ponies will freak out at something like this." As if to prove her point, a stray pony came over, and saw me, he quickly ran off a look of fear in his eyes. Twilight sighed, "I guess teleportation it is." Rainbow, Twilight and I, were encased in purple before the world lurched, I smelled lavender, as in the plant, and landed face first onto the ground of the library, emitting a groan from me.

She instantly picked me up and stood me upright before she began her barrage of question, "Where did you come from? How are you so intelligent? Where do you live? When did you come here? Are you a Herbivore, Omnivore or Carnivore? You said you di-.." The rest was cut off my Rainbow Dash stuffing her hoof Twilight's muzzle, eliciting a blush from the lavender mare. Rainbow dash apologized, "Sorry, but sometimes the egghead can get a bit carried off." I nodded and grinned, "To answer your questions, I came from Earth, I learned from my parents and teachers, I don't really live anywhere as of right now, that one I can't answer, Omnivore, and yes before I came here I didn't have wings, in fact no human had wings," I shrugged, "I have no idea where I got them from."

Rainbow's eyes widened, "Wait, wait, wait, you mean to tell me you never had wings up until now?" I nodded, "So how are you getting used to having wings?" I shrugged, "feels like I had them forever, I just need to practice a bit, it's like a muscle you've never used, so of course it's going to be weak. But I guess after the shock of realizing I had wings, I have come to enjoy them, they in fact saved my life twice from wolves made of wood." Rainbow had been hovering the entire time, I decided to try and hover along with her, I only lasted a minute until I needed a break, sweat adorned my forward.

This in turn caused Rainbow to giggle, "Wow, you really need to work out." I scoffed, "I only had these wings until today! Jeez, give me a break!" This caused Rainbow to laugh even more. Heat began to rise to my face, not in anger but in embarrassment. Twilight spoke up, "Oookayy, so what's your name?" I answered truthfully, wouldn't want to get on the bad side of these ponies so soon, "Justin, Justin Smith, and if you want to be really formal, Justin Daniel Smith." She asked her next question after that, with a very amused Pegasus, "And, how old are you?" I hesitated for a second longer than I would've deemed necessary, "13 years old." Twilight and Rainbow gasped, "Really? Your that young?" I grimaced, "How young is that in pony standards?" She thought for a moment, "The horizon between yearling and foal years I guess." I groaned, "That's what I was expecting."

She shook her head, "What's wrong with that?" I didn't want to answer but I did anyways, "Cause that's literally just about the same exact age frame for my race." She cocked her head, "And, how would you know what a foal and yearling is?" I racked my mind trying to find a way out of this situation, "Um, because we've met horses, and they are called the same thing, what we call foals and yearlings would be, babies, children, or teenagers, going respectively." She nodded in understanding, while a certain pony with a rainbow colored mane was cracking up.

Man, sometimes I just couldn't understand this mare. I shook my head, the blush long gone, when I remembered my MP3 player, I pulled it out and clicked it on, seeing the power at 50% I curse. Twilight out of curiosity no doubt comes over and looks at the small blue rectangle I held. She prods it, "What is it?" I give a brief description, Rainbow floats over and takes a peek at it. I pull out my earbuds and put them into my ears, and play the song - Pewdiepie. Twilight took an earbud and put it into her ear, using magic. Her eyes widened, "Rainbow you have to listen to this!" She put it in her ear, when it hit 'are you fucking kidding me?' She giggled, but she was equally baffled. I paused it much to the sadness of Rainbow Dash.

Twilight took a long look at it some more before turning to me, "How do this work? I've never seen anything like it?" I was about to tell her when, Spike came walking downstairs. He yawned and I clicked off the MP3 and quickly put it away, he took one glance at me, and sleepily asked Twilight, "Sooo, Twilight when did you find this creature?" He said it as if it were a normal every day occurrence, it probably was but the insult didn't fly over my head, "Hey! I heard that ya' know!" He did a double take, "Woah, sorry dude, I didn't know you could talk, just thought you were another of Twilight's experiments."

He blushed, and I responded, "Eh, its okay, in fact I was expecting a worse response from you, in fact I was expecting to be shunned or something, anyways, I am amazing at how un-skeptical you guys have been." Rainbow Dash gave me a look, "Well, I don't completely trust you, yet. But you seem alright." Twilight spoke next, "You don't seem hostile, or capable of doing mass damage, so I'm just gonna say your good for now." Well, this through me for a loop, I wasn't expecting this kind of behavior at all.

An idea hit me, "Hang on a sec, I wanna try something." I stepped out side, and flew upwards, as I was nearing the clouds my wings began to burn, I stepped on top of a cloud to see, well, it worked! I could walk on clouds! Rainbow had followed me up, she being as fast as she is was already reclining when I got up there. "Wow, I didn't think this would truthfully, I thought I would fall straight through." She took a glance at me, "Well, I dont know how it works either, but if you have wings, most likely you can stand on clouds." She spoke rather thoughtfully. An idea came to mind, man so many ideas! "Rainbow, wanna race back to Twilight's house? You'll probably win, but I still wanna try." She smirked, "So you wanna race against the fastest flyer in Equestria? Well, race is on!" I grinned, "3, 2, 1, GO!" I shouted, I arrowed my body and put my wings behind me, Rainbow doing the same, she sped past me, sticking out her tongue as we fell.

The feeling was incredible, in fact I think I lost more than half of my dandruff as I fell. The wind whipped at my hair, I leveled out feet before the ground, Rainbow sped up past me, and ended up at the house faster, but that feeling was still so incredible! A I walked, and Rainbow trotted back into the house, I saw Princess Celestia standing there waiting for us, an emotionless face plastered upon her muzzle... oh yeah, also 1. complete 2. 1/3 way complete...