Chapters "Ugh…" I groaned, my head aching so badly. I flickered open my eyes, only to have the sun shine right into my eyes.
"Ow…" I mumbled as I stood up, eyes closed, only to fall right onto my face. I attempted to sit up once more, yet, again failing. Something wasn't right… it felt…so different. I opened my eyes and realized I was outside. Wait, why was I outside? Why was everything so vibrant? The colors were so unbelievably bright and just, amazing! I put up my arms to hold my head that was still aching. But something felt different… weirded out by the odd feeling, I looked only to see two hooves in front of my eyes. Wait, hooves? HOOVES?!
"HOOVES?! What?!" I screamed and instinctively stood up managing to scramble a bit backwards, only to land on my rump once more. I looked down to see two more, that were in the place of where my legs were supposed to be. I gasped and started looking around nervously. I was, a pony?! How could this even happen? Last thing I remembered was lying in my bed trying to get some sleep! Wait a second… sleep? This was obviously a dream, yet it felt so real. I looked to my sides and saw wings. They were pink, a light pink, as was the rest of my body. The wind blew harshly, only to blow my mane in my face. It was a darker pink, almost like a red. It was almost, sparkly. As for the scenery around me, I was in a field. A field with grass that was a vibrant green, almost as if it were neon. It had few flowers poking from the ground that were a spectacular shade of pink, purple and blue.
I decided I would get up and hopefully start walking around, seeing what I could do. This was a dream after all, right? I stood up, managing to balance on all four legs. Huh, it was odd saying that. All four legs… I started walking forward into one direction hoping to maybe see some civilization. I noticed I saw some apple trees in the distance. Boy, I was a bit hungry… seeing this was a dream after all, why not just go pick an apple or two to munch on? I sped up into a full on sprint heading towards the apple trees. I stopped right in front of the tree, to see hundreds of more in the distance. I scanned throughout the land in front of me, and it sure was beautiful. Only one thing had caught my eye though. I squint to see further back…there was a barn! I forgot all about the apples I was going to pick and ran towards the barn.
I finally had reached the barn, I was exhausted. I definitely underestimated how far away I was from it. I walked forward only to see an orange pony. She had three apples on her side, and had a blonde mane, pulled into a low pony tail. How ironic.
"Um, excuse me!" I said trotting towards the pony, hoping to catch her attention.
"Why, howdy! I haven't seen you 'round these here parts, what's your name? Ah'm Applejack!" She said excitedly, adjusting her cowgirl hat.
I smiled back, and replied, "I'm Kate! Hi, I am new here, obviously, heh… you see, I am just dreaming, so I guess um, well…yeah! I'm sure you already knew that, or you didn't. Really, I don't know. I'll just be on my way, as I don't really see a point in asking for directions anymore… cause, this is a dream! Right?! Right. Heh, heh…" I was hesitating. After just being here for what seemed like half of an hour, it really felt too real. Too real to even be a dream.
Applejack stared at me, acting as if I were really weird, or just plain crazy. She replied with a 'what-the-heck' kind of voice, "Ah'm afraid you aren't dreaming, sugarcube…anyway, welcome to Ponyville!" She then walked away to attend to some apple trees.
What? That's nonsense. Just, crazy. I'm not dreaming? Was this true? I wish I could pinch myself right now, and wake up in my room. Sadly, I can't do that, because I have HOOVES!
"Wait, Applejack!" I said, running straight towards her.
"Huh? What do ya need, sugarcube?" She asked me, seeing that I was coming back.
"Well… do you know how I can get to…well… some other place? With more ponies, perhaps?" I asked.
"Well, head up that there path, and turn left, that's where most everypony is." She replied, while pointing towards the path to go on.
"Thanks, Applejack!" I yelled, running towards the path.
I wonder what everypony else will be like… maybe I'll even make a few friends!
Chapter 2
I ran down the path, and turned left and trotted down that road for a while… then I saw some buildings in the distance. Not too far away, with ponies! I ran as quick as I could. There were tons of mares, and not as many stallions. Lots of buildings, and little shops where you could buy veggies and fruits. Although this one shop caught my eye. It was called 'Sugarcube Corner'. It was like a huge edible house! The roof was made out of what looked like chocolate, with a white outline. I wish I could eat that…I decided I would walk in to see if there was anything to eat. It was a shop, so why not? I walked in to find tons of sweets behind the counter, delicious confectionaries like cupcakes, muffins, and cookies. One cupcake definitely made me drool. It was what looked like an apple cupcake, green frosting piled high with an apple wedge, just for the top. The scent darted up my nose and I found myself right at the counter.
"What can I get for yoOoUuU?!" I looked up to see a pink pony, with crazy curly poofed up hair in front of me, and to my side, not even in a second. She gasped loud enough to break my eardrums for about 10 seconds, in the air. How did she even stay in midair like that? I had a feeling that was normal for her.
"Oh, um…" I was cut off by the pony with her face right to mine.
"You're new here! Oh my gosh! I'm Pinkie Pie! What's your name?"
"Well, I…" I tried to answer but she interrupted me.
"Where are you from?! I know every single pony here and I haven't seen you before! This calls for a PARTY! Oh! I have to get my party cannon too! OH! AND my welcome wagon! This is going to be so FUN!" She ran right past me out of the shop, in less than a second.
"I guess I'm not getting that cupcake…" I mumbled to myself walking out of the shop. I decided I would go and explore more around the town. A few ponies stared at me, I'm guessing that they noticed I was new here. Although, a few more greeted me. They were quite nice, and I could see they were all friendly. I was hoping to strike a conversation with someone, as the only civil-like one I had was with Applejack. I really hadn't had a nice real conversation with anypony, and I was definitely hoping to change that. I desperately needed some friends here, especially cause I was new.
All of the sudden, Pinkie Pie appears right in front of me, and starts dragging me to Sugarcube Corner.
"Pinkie! What? What are you doing?" I said trying to stop her from dragging me into the shop. But it was too late, I entered the shop and there was cakes, cupcakes, muffins, punch and lots of ponies staring at me. I felt really awkward having them all stare at me for a good 15 seconds straight.
"Uh…" I was cut off, once again by Pinkie who dragged me into a corner with 5 other ponies once the party had really started, and everyone was hanging out.
"Pinkie, what is this?" I said, staring at the other 5 ponies in front of me.
They all looked nice, so I really had no problem being around them, but I felt as though I should introduce myself, to get rid of the awkward quietness around us.
"Hi… um, I'm Kate." I said, twiddling around with my two front hooves. Err… it still sounded odd saying that.
"I'm Twilight Sparkle," said a purple unicorn with a darker purple mane, and a lighter purple and pink streak in her hair. "this is Fluttershy," she said nudging the pony next to her, who was yellow, and had a pink mane that was partially covering her left eye. She looked really frightened, and I could definitely see why her name was FlutterSHY.
"Hi Twilight, and Fluttershy." I said smiling, hopefully making Fluttershy more comfortable around me. I could see why she was acting shy though, I was new.
Twilight continued, "This is Rainbo-…" she was interrupted by the pony.
"RAINBOW DASH. The one, the only." A blue pony, said, while putting on a confident smile. She had wings as I did, with rainbow mane, and tail. That was definitely different.
"Hi, Rainbow Dash, the one and only!" I said, copying the one and only part. I smiled and looked over to see another unicorn.
"This is Rarity," Twilight continued and looked over to Rarity. She was a white unicorn, with blue eye shadow. Her mane was purple and had a few curls. She was also wearing a stunning dress.
"Wow, Rarity! I really like your dress. Did you make it yourself?" I asked, giving a friendly smile.
"Why, yes I did." She said confidently, showing her dress off.
"It's lovely." I replied.
"Thank you!" She said giving me a friendly smile back and a nod.
Once more, Twilight continued, with only one pony left. Although I knew this pony…it was Applejack!
"and last, this is Applejack." She finished all of the names of her friends.
"Hi, Applejack! Nice to see you again." I said, remembering that she did point me towards Ponyville.
"Howdy!" she replied, with a wink.
"So you're new here, huh?" Asked Twilight.
"Yes, I am… really I don't even know how I got here." I said back slowly.
"What?" They all said together, giving me a confused look.
"Yeah well… I'd rather not talk about it right now, after all, Pinkie did throw a great party!" I said hopefully turning away from the fact, that I had absolutely no idea how I got here. I just ended up here mysteriously in the huge field by Applejacks apple farm.
"Well, I guess so, but I really would like to hear how you ended up here. There's got to be some explanation. Do you have a place to stay?" She asked me.
"No… in fact, I don't…" I replied, looking down to the floor. Where was I going to stay? I can't just wander around all night.
"Well it's your lucky day, because I happen to have room in my Library!" She said giving me a nudge, trying to perk me back up.
"Wow, really? That would be a great help. Thank you so much, Twilight!" I said perking right back up, just as she had hoped.
"Now let's just enjoy this party! It is one of Pinkie's famous welcome parties, after all. We don't get too many of these!" She said happily going over to the snack table.
Huh. Everypony was so nice to me. I think I could really start to like it here. Although I really need to find a way back to my home… I just mysteriously ended up here, and this honestly makes no sense! I'm a pony for goodness sakes! This isn't even scientifically possible! How did this even happen? Maybe this is just a hugely realistic dream? I don't know. Maybe later I'll end up waking up in my bed at home. Yeah. That'll happen. It definitely will. Right?
After the party was over, I decided to head to the library. Twilight said she was going to meet me there once she was gone running some errands. I walked into the library. Honestly, I didn't even know ponies read. I walked over to a huge shelf and decided to at least see what they read about. It was typical books, like you would see where I'm from. Well, as in genre. To name a few books, I saw Daring Do, Magical Potions for Dummies. I giggled a bit at that, and set it back into its place. I heard a noise, and looked over to see a dragon coming down the stairs. A DRAGON.
"AH!" I yelped and fell onto my rump, managing to squirm back a bit. The dragon was small, but was still a dragon!
"Oh! Sorry I didn't mean to scare you," The dragon said, coming towards me.
"STAY BACK!" I yelled grabbing a book with my two front hooves, and pointing it towards him. Some defensive weapon, I know, but it was all I could grab!
"A book, really?" He said as if he weren't impressed one bit. "I'm not going to hurt you. I promise!" he said with a friendly smile, and held out a hand to help me up.
I put my hoof onto his hand, and he helped me up.
"Thanks..." I said to him, awkwardly.
He introduced himself, "I'm Spike! Twilight's assistant!"
"Oh, you know Twilight! I'm Kate! I'm new here, you probably already knew that though. Twilight said I could stay here, for a while, as I have no place to live." I said feeling more comfortable than I had a minute ago, I held out a hoof for him to shake. He shook it, and we started talking about Ponyville.
"So do you like Ponyville so far? How long have you been here?" He asked me, sounding excited.
"Well, um it's really nice! I love it, and I have been here for, maybe half of a day?" I said, hoping not to splurt out that I don't even know how I got here, because then I'll be attacked with so many questions. Or, at least that's what I was expecting if I were to say I didn't know.
"Why did you decide to come here? Not saying you shouldn't have! It's a great place!" He hesitated, and I could see why. He didn't want to scare me off if there wasn't anything to be scared of!
"Well, you see I-…" I was cut off to see that Twilight had entered. Thank goodness!
"Oh hi, Twilight!" Spike ran to her, helping with some bags she was carrying.
"I see you've already met Kate!" She said happily carrying the bags Spike hadn't taken, but with magic!
"You… you have magic?" I asked, eyes wide, and definitely shocked!
"Well, yeah! I am a unicorn." She said pointing to her horn.
"That's amazing! It's just, where I come from, there is no magic!" I said, staring at the bags floating in some kind of purple sparkly mist.
"No magic? Well, I would like to hear about where you came from! You said you just somehow ended up in Equestria, didn't you?" She asked, setting the bags down onto a table in the middle of the Library.
"Yeah, and I wasn't a pony before." I said, looking down at my hooves.
"You weren't a pony? What were you?" Twilight asked, picking up some books from the shelves behind me.
"Well… I was a human, of course!" I said, thinking of what other possibilities I could have ended up as. What if I ended up in the sea, and became a mermaid? As if that were possible! Well… neither is being a pony. Heh.
"A human? I thought those were just mythical creatures!" She said, using her magic floating more than five books around her and flipping the pages quickly.
"Well, they definitely aren't…" I replied, thinking of what could exist that humans had no idea of, whatsoever. Talking ponies was probably one of those, and now I'm a talking pony!
"Do you remember how you even got here?" she said, still flipping through the pages.
"Not at all! Last thing I remember was going to sleep, then all of the sudden waking up in a field next to Applejacks farm." I said, still trying to remember if there was anything, even the slightest memory of ending up here. Nope, nothing.
"That's just, so odd… well, it's getting pretty late, guess we should hit the ha-…" She was interrupted when all of the sudden, Spike burped up a scroll.
"A letter from Princess Celestia!" Twilight gasped, immediately grabbing the scroll with her magic and unfolding the ribbon around it. Her eyes went back and forth down the paper.
"She's coming tomorrow to meet, YOU, Kate!" she exclaimed, rereading the paper a few times.
I was shocked, and confused at the same time… I didn't understand, who was Princess Celestia? "Who is Princess Celestia? Why does she want to meet me? How does she even know me? What?" I gasped, asking all of these questions.
"Princess Celestia is, well… the Princess of all Equestria! And, I am her personal student for magic." She said, proudly, still kind of shocked she was coming on such short notice. "I don't know how she knows you, and we already have SO much to do!" she started breathing heavily, and loudly.
"What? Why? Twilight, stay with me!" I ran to her and started shaking her.
"Sorry, sorry! Everything has to be PERFECT!" she said loudly, putting the books away into the shelves, and started straightening everything up, even if it all looked perfectly fine.
"Twilight! Calm down, we still have tomorrow to get ready." I said, hopefully calming her down a bit. Boy, was I wrong…
Is Twilight going to go crazy?!
"Calm down?! CALM DOWN!?" Twilight yelled, and then I could tell she really was extremely nervous about Princess Celestia coming.
"Um... Twilight... are you okay?" I asked, shying away a bit. I noticed her hairs starting to get out of place, sticking up in all directions. Then, she started to calm down.
"I'm sorry, Kate," She said, backing up a few steps. "I'm just so nervous! Now that Princess Celestia is coming on such short notice, I need to make sure everything goes perfect!" she continued, frowning a bit.
"Err, it's okay Twilight! I could see why you're a bit stressed. So, why don't we get some shut-eye, and then I can help you with anything you need to do for her arrival tomorrow." I replied, yawning.
"Yeah, I guess that would be alright." she replied, with a slight yawn as well.
"Well, your room is right there, I hope you don't mind that it's the guest room." she said pointing her hoof to a door to my left.
"Oh, no. I don't mind at all!" I replied, walking in the direction she was pointing towards. I was honestly surprised there was a guest room in the library.
"Well, Spike, it's time for bed! Come on, let's go." she said motioning for Spike to come into her direction.
"Aw man, bed time? Already?" Spike said hanging his head low, and walking to Twilight. She giggled at his response and started walking up the stairs.
"Goodnight, Kate!" She called out to me.
"Night!" I called back before walking into the guest room. The walls were white, and there was a bed, and a nightstand. A few decorations here and there.
I wasn't sure how I was going to sleep soundly, with this new pony body. I just decided to lie on my side, before a small sharp pain came to my side. "Ow!" I screeched, making sure I was quiet enough to not wake Twilight and Spike. Turns out I laid on my wing as it wasn't fully tucked in. I totally forgot I had those. I sighed and rolled onto my back. I guess I was just going to have to sleep that way and not on my side.
I then, dozed off.
The Next Day...
I woke up, feeling well rested, only to realize I wasn't in my own bed, my own room! Oh, wait. That's right. I'm in Ponyville now. I guess this really wasn't a dream...I got up from my bed and walked out to see everything sparkling clean. Literally, sparkling clean. I looked over to see Twilight, on the ground sleeping.
"Um, Twilight?" I said giving her a nudge. "What are you doing out here?"
"Huh!? What? Oh..." she snorted and looked up at me tiredly.
"You were up all night, weren't you, Twilight?" I said, giving her a disappointing look.
"Yes... I was." she said, hesitating at first.
"I know you're nervous for Princess Celestia to come, but you shouldn't have stayed up all night trying to clean up! Now you'll be more tired than ever!" I replied, concerned.
Twilight looked so, so tired. Bags under her eyes, her hair was out of place, and had tons of tangles. How did that even happen in one night? All of the sudden, we heard music coming from outside. She jumped up and tried fixing her mane as best as she could.
"Is that the Princess?" I asked, my ears perked up, listening to the music.
"Yeah!" she said, running around and trying to fix herself up. "She'll be here any second!" And in that second she told me, I started running around fixing myself up too. I had no idea why, I'm not usually too worried about my looks, but this was the Princess of EQUESTRIA, we were talking about!
We then heard some guards knocking on the library door.
"EEP!" Twilight and I screeched at the same time, before Twilight went to open up the door.
Chapter 5
"Hello, Ms. Twilight Sparkle." The guard greeted before letting Princess Celestia in the library.
She walked into the room, and I saw Twilight bow, so I imitated her.
"Hello, Twilight, my most faithful student," She said looking down at Twilight and giving a warm smile. "And Hello, Kate." she said looking down at me. I stood up from my bow nervously, and looked up to her. "Hello, Princess, it's an honor to meet you." I smiled.
"It's an honor to meet YOU, Kate. I know you're not from Ponyville, you're special."
I blushed and looked over to Twilight who's jaw had dropped at the words of Princess Celestia.
"Do you have any idea on how she got here, Princess?" Twilight asked.
"Yes, I do." Twilight and I looked at each other and gasped.
"In the human world, there is a flower that doesn't grow here, and when it does grow in the human world, it happens only once a year and blooms only at night." she continued.
"The Nightblooming cereus..." I whispered to myself. I had one on my nightstand, well... in my room in the 'human world'.
"That is correct, Kate. We don't have any here, and I was going to teleport the flower here to grow in Equestria, but instead of taking the flower, the teleporter took you... and it's permanent." She explained.
"Permanent?!" I screamed.
"Princess, is there anything at all that we can do?" Twilight asked, hoping to get a yes from the Princess.
"Not that I know of, my faithful student, and if there is anything, until I find it out, Kate is going to have to stay here in Ponyville." she said calmly.
Permanent? I have to stay in Ponyville until there is a spell found to send me back? What if there is no spell to send me back?! What if I don't get to see my family again?! SO Many questions were running through my mind, and I wanted to ask them all, and more, until Princess Celestia interrupted my train of thought.
"So sorry I have to cut this short, something has come up." She said sitting up and walking towards the door.
"Goodbye Twilight and, Kate." she waved and teleported into thin air before we could even wave back.
"Twilight... I'm gonna need to learn to use these, especially if I'm going to be here a while." I said spreading my wings.
"Oh, yeah! You should go ask Rainbow Dash or Fluttershy. They might be out around the town!" she said pointing towards the door.
"Thanks, Twilight! Wish me luck, and hope I don't fall on my face too much." I waved going through the door and trotting towards town.
I finally reached the town, and was going to try and find Fluttershy or Rainbow Dash, but then all of a sudden my stomach starting rumbling violently.
"Oh, yeah... I haven't really eaten much since I got here..." I muttered to myself, and decided to head over to an apple stand where Applejack was selling apples!
"Hey, Applejack!" I said trotting towards her stand.
"Howdy, Kate!" she greeted and smiled.
"So, you're selling apples, I see." I smiled and looked over at them, pretty much drooling everywhere. The apples were perfectly ripe and red, and looked incredibly juicy.
"Sure am! Would you like one?" she asked, noticing that I was staring at them like I hadn't eaten in weeks.
"I sure would love one!" I said happily, while she handed me an apple.
"How much is one apple?" I asked, staring at the delectable fruit in my hooves.
"Oh, on the house, Sugarcube!" she said winking.
"Thank you so much Applejack, that's really nice of you!" I said before stuffing the apple whole in my mouth.
"Whoa there, you sure are hungry." she grinned.
"I really am, but that'll hold me over for a while! Thanks again!" I said before walking away, back to finding Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy.
I trotted through the town for a little while more, before seeing Fluttershy walking to a carrot stand.
"Hey Fluttershy!" I said walking to her side.
"Oh, hello Kate!" she said quietly, even though you could tell she was in a happy mood today. "I was just buying some carrots for Angel." she said happily, while paying for the few carrots she had picked out.
"Who's Angel?" I asked curiously.
"Oh, Angel is my pet bunny! He's very picky and won't eat the cucumber or salad I put out for him, so I came out here to get carrots." she said while putting the carrots into her saddlebag.
"Oh, I see." I said. Maybe she was too busy trying to take care of Angel at the moment. I should just ask Rainbow Dash then.
"Was there something you wanted to tell me, Kate?" she said smiling.
"Oh, no it's nothing really. Good luck getting Angel to eat those carrots!" I said changing the subject.
"Oh, well okay then! Goodbye!" she said while walking away.
I needed to find Rainbow Dash so she could teach me to fly, but where was she? Then, all of a sudden I heard a yell.
"RAINBOW DASH! WAIT, WANNA GO PRANKING AGAIN? OR WE COULD PLAN A PARTY! OOH, OOH! WE COULD GO AND EAT CUPCAKES!"
That definitely sounded like Pinkie Pie.
I followed in the direction I heard her yelling.
Following Pinkie's yelling to Rainbow Dash, I saw her hopping around in a circle.
"Um... Pinkie, what are you doing?" I asked trotting over to her, in front of the imaginary circle she was bouncing around.
"Hi Kate! I'm just hopping around in a circle below the cloud that Dashie is hiding in." she replied happily, still bouncing in the circle.
"Well, that's great, Pinkie!" I said looking up at the cloud above us.
"It sure is! When she comes out, we're going to go pranking, eat cupcakes, plan a party, and do soooo many more super duper things!" she said really quickly.
"Are you sure she's up there?" I asked, as I saw no sign of Rainbow Dash at all in that cloud.
"Super-duper sure! I saw her zoom really really really fast into it!" she said smiling a huge smile.
"Hmm..." I muttered. What if I can fly without needing help? I haven't really even tried it before. So I started to flap my wings as fast as I could, and lifted probably an inch from the ground. "Darn it!" I stomped angrily. Then, I heard laughing coming from the cloud above me, and a bouncing Pinkie Pie. I looked up to see Rainbow on the cloud laughing like she'd seen the funniest thing ever.
"Why are you laughing, Dash?" I asked still staring at the cloud she was on.
"I'm laughing at you! Hahahaha!" she replied falling onto her back.
"What? Why are you laughing at me?!" I replied, angrily.
"You tried to fly... and you barely lifted... an inch off of the... ground!" she said between her laughs.
"Well, Rainbow Dash, I actually came looking for you to teach me how to fly!" I spat back.
"You did?" She stopped her laughing and stood up.
"Yeah, well maybe I should just go ask Fluttershy instead, if you think it's really that funny that I can't fly!" I said turning away. How could she just laugh at me like that? She knows I'm not from here!
"WAIT! No! I'll teach you how to fly!" She said landing right in front of me. Well, that was fast.
I froze. "Really? That'd be great, Dash! Thank you so much!" I said hopping around in a circle just like Pinkie did, but she had stopped.
"Ok, ok. No need to go on bouncing around like Pinkie." she replied to my reaction.
"Oh, got it. Heh." I said, immediately stopping.
"Great! Practice starts tomorrow at 5!" she said before flying off in another direction.
"OKAY! SEE YOU THEN!" I yelled at her while she was flying.
"WAIT, RAINBOW DASH! WHERE ARE YOU GOING?! I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO GO PRANKING?!" Pinkie screamed and ran off towards Rainbow Dash.
Chapter 7
After having Rainbow Dash approve to giving me some flying lessons, I decided to go back to the library. It was getting dark.
I walked into the library and saw Twilight organizing some books.
"Hey, Twilight!" I greeted.
"Oh, hey Kate!" She said focusing on organizing.
"What's up?" I asked walking over to her.
"I'm just organizing the books." she said using her magic to put 4 books onto the top shelf.
"Sounds like fun!" I joked.
"Ha, ha." she said sarcastically. "So did you get Rainbow Dash or Fluttershy to help you with flying?" she asked.
"Yep! I got Rainbow Dash to help me. The flying lessons start tomorrow at 5!" I said excitedly.
"That's great!" she replied, finishing up her last few books. "I'm starving! Want to go get some dinner?" she asked, heading towards the door.
"Oh, that'd be great. I'm starved too!" I replied walking next to Twilight.
"SPIIIKE! We're going to get dinner, come with us!" Twilight called waking up Spike from a nap.
"Dinner? Alright!" he said excitedly waking from his nap and running the stairs.
"Wow, I've never seen him wake up from a nap that fast in a while!" she whispered to me.
"Not surprising." I giggled.
"Hey! I heard that!" he said popping up next to me.
Twilight and I laughed, and we all started to walk towards a restaurant and we got seated right outside.
The waiter walked up and handed us 3 menus.
I looked at the menu, and it had dishes like salad, and veggie, flower filled sandwiches. Where's the meat? Oh, that's right. I'm a vegetarian now.
"Um.. I'll take a Daffodil Sandwich." Twilight said setting down her menu.
"I'll have the hayfries." Spike told the waiter.
"And, for you, Madame?" the waiter asked me, waiting for me to put down my menu.
"Uh... I'll take a Daffodil Sandwich too." I replied, setting down my menu. I honestly didn't know what to get, but it's good to try new things... even if it didn't sound too appetizing.
The waiter walked away and later came back with our food.
"Thank you!" I said, looking at the sandwich. It looked kind of good, even if I were just about to eat flowers.
Twilight started eating her sandwich, and Spike was stuffing himself with the hayfries. I picked up my sandwich in my two hooves, and smelled it. It smelled like, well, daffodils and bread. Pretty straight forward. I slowly took a bite. WOW. The taste was pretty straight forward too! BREAD AND FLOWERS. Not sensational, but I could keep eating it, besides, I would have to start liking all this food if I'm going to be here for a while. I noticed Twilight and Spike staring at me chewing the sandwich, as if they wanted to see my reaction to this new food.
"Heh, it's delicious!" I faked a smile, while chewing. They both smiled and went back to eating their food.
I quickly finished up, hoping to get this taste out of my mouth by taking a huge gulp of water.
"Well, I think were finished here!" Twilight said getting up from her seat.
"Yep. Now I can finally go back to sleep!" Spike replied getting on Twilight's back.
We walked back to the library and each went to our rooms after saying goodnight.
I crawled into my bed and fell asleep almost instantly.
I woke up to tapping on my window. It was so early, it only just started getting bright outside.
I got up, and started wobbly walking to the window. It was Rainbow Dash! I opened the window.
"R-Rainbow Dash?" I said confused, rubbing my eyes.
"Hey, Kate! Ready for practice?!" she yelled into my ears.
"Practice? Right now?! You must be crazy! It's like, five in the morni-...oh." I replied, whispering trying not to wake up Twilight and Spike.
Rainbow Dash laughed, "Get outside, soldier! It's time for your flying lessons!"
"Rainbow Dash! I thought you meant 5 as in, in the evening, NOT morning!" I said, as if she were crazy, because at the moment, she definitely did seem like it.
'No way! If you're going to be taught by me, you're going to have to wake up EVERY morning at 5, whether you like it or not!" she replied, still yelling.
"Rainbow Dash! Could you at least try and be quiet? You're going to wake up Twilight and Spike!" I replied to her yelling.
"Fine... I guess you don't want to learn to fly..." she said walking away slowly.
"No, no! Wait! Fine, I'll be out in a minute." I replied tiredly and closed my window. I stumbled out of my room and outside, to find Rainbow Dash right in front of the door.
"Ready?" She asked.
"As ready as I'll ever be." I replied slowly, my vision still blurry.
"Great. Now come over here!" she demanded and walked over to a spot in a field, sort of like the one I woke up in, but definitely not near Sweet Apple Acres.
I walked over there and stood up straight.
"Now, this is the first lesson. This lesson is all about stretching your wings, and starting to flap them." she said walking back and forth in front of me.
"YES, SIR." I replied jokingly and gave a salute.
"Now, stretch out your wings as far as they can go!" she said, demonstrating.
I stretched out my wings.
"Good, now start flapping them up and down at the same exact time, not in a mixed order." she said, giving me an example, and started to lift off of the ground.
I starting flapping them and I started to lift off the ground, but fell miserably right onto my face.
She once again, laughed at my flying skills.
"Ok ok, you can stop laughing now!" I said, embarrassed.
She didn't stop. Errgh. "Seriously Rainbow, I get it's funny, but I really need to learn how to fly! It's embarrassing. There are little fillies out there who know how to fly, and I still don't." I said spreading out my wings. I started flapping them once again but fell onto my rump. Of course, she laughed even harder.
"Rainbow Dash! Come on! I'm going back." I stomped angrily and walked back to the library.
I heard the door open behind me and she came in still giggling.
"Ok, ok. I won't laugh if you fall the next time! Maybe... now get back out here, soldier!" she said, still yelling, but not loud enough for Twilight and Spike to hear.
"Gee, Dash. Thanks." I said sarcastically and walked back outside.
After my first flying lesson with Rainbow Dash, my wings were aching. She made me flap my wings for over an hour, pretty much non-stop. Only one good thing came out of that lesson…I got up to 6 inches off the ground. Yeah, yeah, it's not much, but hey, it was my FIRST lesson. I was pretty proud of myself, even if I still had a long way to go.
I decided I would take a walk around Ponyville. I hadn't really ever gotten to explore much of it since I ended up here, so I figured now would be the time. It was still early, maybe around 7. Ponies awake, setting up their stands to sell fruits and vegetables like they did every day. I walked ahead more and more, maybe for about 20 minutes before I encountered a dark forest. I had never seen this forest before, and thought maybe it was fine to go in, after all no one had ever said to me there was a dangerous forest. Everypony was happy and everything seemed harmless, maybe there wasn't anything evil at all in Equestria? I walked forward into the forest, it was definitely darker the more you went in. It was as if it were night, and not day. I didn't see as many animals as I really expected, especially because it was a forest. Occasionally an Owl would 'hoot' or a frog would hop by. I had definitely lost track of time, and was probably walking through the forest for about 20 minutes. There was nothing in sight, besides trees and bushes ahead. Although…something didn't seem right…I felt as if I were being stared at. I looked to my left, and saw nothing, and then I turned over to look to my right, and noticed in the dark pitch black behind the bushes, two glowing green eyes staring at me. I could see no face, no body, just the green eyes staring deep into mine. My eyes grew wide as I saw more appear. Pair by pair they appeared in both directions. I held my breath and stayed still. One of the pairs came closer, and closer until I could see huge paws, that looked as if they were made out of wood, and very long sharp nails. A tapping sound was made each step it moved forward. I could now see the whole body of it. It was all wood, and was about twice the size of me. I looked up, as it came closer and closer to me. The rest emerged from behind the first one, as did the others from my left. Large sharp teeth were shown, as they growled all together. I started backing away until I bumped into one behind me. They had circled around me. I screeched and turned around backing up, yet keeping as much distance as I could from the others surrounding me.
One was about to leap right at me, until I kicked my back legs right at it. It fell apart, and was no longer a worry to me. Except the fact that all the rest of the 'things' got angrier. One leaped at me, and knocked me down, twisting my leg, and used one of it's wooden legs to stomp onto my unprotected wing. I screamed in pain, and everything around me faded. The last thing I saw was the angry creature staring right into my eyes, growling viciously.
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I opened my eyes, and everything was bright white, and I was laying on a bed with green covers. I heard beeping noises coming from my right, and instantly felt a sharp pain coming from my wing and leg. I looked to my side, and my wing was wrapped in bandage, and my leg was held in the air and wrapped in more bandage. The last thing I remembered was being attacked, and then everything went black...
How did I end up in the Hospital? Who took me here, and who found me?
I sat up, carefully trying not to move my leg too much.
I saw a nurse walking by my door, not noticing me.
"Um, excuse me?" I asked, and she looked at me with wide eyes, and ran.
What was all that about? A few moments later, a doctor rushed in, re-positioned his glasses, and looked at his clipboard.
"Ms. Kate, you're awake!" he exclaimed.
"Yes, um... what's going on? How long have I been out?" I asked nervously.
"For 3 days, you're quite lucky to come out with only a broken wing and leg in a Timberwolf attack."
"3 days?! You're joking, right?" I asked in disbelief.
"I'm afraid not..." he replied, staring at his clipboard.
"So, who got me here to the hospital?" I asked curiously.
"Zecora." he answered.
Zecora? Who the hay was Zecora?
"Who's Zecora?" I asked before Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy, AND Spike came into the room.
"Oh my gosh, Kate! You're finally awake!" Twilight said, relieved.
"Yeah! I am, heh." I said looking at my poor leg, and wing.
"You gave us quite the scare, darling." Rarity said giving a small sigh.
"We came as soon as we heard you were awake." Fluttershy explained quietly.
"Yeah! Now that you're awake, we can throw a party!" Exclaimed Pinkie Pie, somehow taking out a Party Cannon that was NOT there before, and making it explode, with confetti floating everywhere.
"Pinkie, I don't think she'll want a party right now. She's still got to heal from her broken wing and leg." Twilight said, walking over to the side of my bed.
Pinkie frowned and her hair deflated. Huh, deflated. Weird... but she looked really sad.
"Oh, no Pinkie, don't be sad! We can have a party as soon as I get outta here!" I reassured her.
Her hair popped back up and she jumped around in delight.
"Pinkie, you are SO random." Rainbow Dash said grinning.
The nurse who ran away from me, walked in and told everypony to leave, as visiting hours were over.
We all said our goodbye's and Twilight even let me borrow a few books while I was going to stay here. I thanked her and they all left.
"So, Doc, how long am I stuck in here for?" I asked looking over to him.
"Soonest would be tomorrow." He replied, not even looking at me.
"Well, alright." I said, laying back a bit.
A new nurse came into the room with a tray of what looked like peas, and pink jello.
Blech. The peas looked like they had hair! I don't even think these are edible. I only had the jello, which I would have eaten up fast, if it weren't warm.
After eating the jello, I started reading the books Twilight gave me. They entertained me until I became tired, and went to sleep.
I woke up when the doctor nudged me and had a wheelchair by his side.
He lowered my leg from the air and helped me into the wheelchair.
He pushed me out to the front of the Hospital.
I headed my way back to the Library and Twilight greeted me, pushing me to my room.
I was still really tired, and really wanted to take a nap, especially in my own bed. Hospital beds aren't that comfortable, well for me at least.
I very slowly crawled into the bed, and made sure not to move my broken leg too much, it still had a bulky cast around it.
Looks like the Wheelchair will be my transportation for a while.
For some reason, I couldn't sleep. I was thinking back when I was in the hospital, and the doctor told me Zecora took me to the hospital. Did this 'Zecora' fight off the Timberwolves? How did she get me back to the hospital? How did she even find me?
Tiredness slowly took over me and I was left to ask later when I woke up.
I woke up from my nap, and lifted my head to look out the window. It looked around noon. I slowly crawled and settled into my wheelchair and went out of my bedroom. Twilight was reading, of course. She usually was when I went out in the main room.
"Hey, Twilight!" I greeted.
"Hey, Kate." She said looking up from her book.
"So... the doctor told me that somepony named 'Zecora' took me to the hospital when I blacked out... do you know them?" I asked curiously.
"Oh, yes. She lives in the Everfree Forest! The one you were in, and heard you scream. She somehow got the Timberwolves to leave and took you to the hospital. Lucky she wasn't in the town when you were attacked! What were you doing in there anyway, Kate?" she stopped telling me about Zecora, and asked me.
"Well, you see... I was wondering around Ponyville, and saw the forest, and decided to go take a look... I lost track of time, and all these timberwolves started surrounding me! I kicked one, and the rest got angrier...then I got knocked over by one, it stepped on my wing and twisted my leg! And!-" I started explaining with hand motions.
"Kate, you need to know you shouldn't go into that forest again. It's the most dangerous place around here." she interrupted.
"Yeah... well now I know that..." I mumbled to myself. She really didn't even need to tell me to go in there again. I wouldn't dare step NEAR that forest unless I had to.
"Well, anyway... I need to get back to reading. I need to study." she said facing back to the book.
"Alright, good luck!" I said wheeling my way to the door, out to the town.
I was wheeling my way around town and just exploring, still not near the forest. Hah, never again.
Rainbow Dash swooped down and landed right in front of me.
"Hey, Kate!"
"Hi, Rainbow!"
"So I'm guessing no flying practice for a while?" she joked.
"Yeah, no. It's still broken, as you can see." I pointed to my wing.
"When can you start practicing again?" she asked.
"Eh, I don't know Doc said maybe in a week or two. Just hope it goes by fast, I need to learn, and quick." I said looking at my broken wing.
"Ha! That's for sure." She laughed.
"Haha, hilarious." I said sarcastically.
"Well, I gotta go finish up some weather jobs, see ya round, Kate!" she said flying off.
I waved and set off to explore parts of the town I hadn't seen yet.
