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A New Place to Call Home

by Xela3

Chapter 3: 3. Toilet adventures and talking troubles

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I started waking up reluctantly. I really didn't want to wake up already because my head hurt like shit, my leg hurt like shit and I felt so comfortable here. I groaned as I slowly woke my body up. A wave of memories hit me like a brick wall as I remembered where I was. I opened my eyes only to see what I really didn't expect.

In front of my face was a bear. It was the same size as me but it was a f**king' bear! I threw myself of the couch in panic and the bear seemed startled by my sudden actions. The bear recovered quickly and walked after me as it growled all the time. I dragged myself backwards to avoid the bear and the pain was covered up by the adrenaline flowing through my veins. I saw a door behind me and quickly ran inside of it. Apparently I was lucky because this door led into a toilet which meant that the door had a lock.

After quickly turning the key to lock the door I looked for any windows that the bear could come through. I didn't find a single window. Sadly, that meant that I had no way to escape if the bear was to get in. so I did what I could and sat down on the floor, hyperventilating.

I waited for the big predator to suddenly knock down the door and eat me alive but as I waited seconds soon turned into minutes but nothing happened. I could hear someone come up towards my location from outside through the thin toilet walls and I could hear the front door open.

The bear started making weird noises that sounded kind of like whining mixed with growling.
As the growling stopped I could hear the voices of two people talking to each other. One of the voices I recognized from earlier, it was the yellow horse. The other voice was lecturing the first voice but I couldn't make out the words they were saying.

*Knock-knock-knock.*
the sudden noise scared me and I jumped slightly and the second after I fell down on the floor in freight the one who knocked talked to me through the door.

"Oh, please don't be scared. Mr. Bear would never hurt a soul! I told him to look after you for your safety Could you please open the door? I brought food for you. You must be hungry!" The first, calmer, voice said. I felt like I should trust this calmer voice because I had nothing else to trust. Also I couldn't just hide forever.

I unlocked the door and opened I carefully, looking for the bear at the same time. It was standing in a room far away looking at me with a frown. Happy that it was far away I opened the door. As I opened the door to the max I could see the horse up close. She had a yellow coat with a pink mane. She smiled warmly at me and that's when I noticed she had very human like facial shapes. Behind the yellow horse there was another one. A purple horse with pink stripes… wait a second did it have a horn!? Was that a real unicorn!?

She must have noticed my big eyed staring because she asked the yellow horse.

"Fluttershy, are you sure it's not dangerous? Because I don't like the look it's giving me." The purple horse asked.

"Well, it hasn't tried anything yet so I believe he is not going to harm us." said the yellow horse which I now knew had the name Fluttershy. Fluttershy turned her head towards me.

"You're not dangerous are you?" She asked in the same voice that someone would use to a dog while saying "Who's a good boy!"
I shook my head and tried to force a smile on my face even though I felt excitement mixed with fear of the bear in my body.

"See, it can even understand me even though it's the first of its kind that I meet." She said with a big smile plastered to her face. Suddenly I saw something that dropped my jaw even more. Fluttershy had wings! I don't know how I didn't notice before but that doesn't matter.

I could barely keep myself from feeling her wings and she noticed what I was looking at. She just smiled and looked at the purple unicorn.

"See twilight? It is just curious. It is not dangerous." She said as she approached me and stood by my side.

'The purple horse is called twilight' I added to my brain.

"Maybe it's just curious about how you taste? I will have to study its eating habits later but at the moment we have to assume that it eats meat" Twilight said with fear in her voice. I still didn't say anything since I didn't want them to know I was a sentient being yet, Even though I just wanted to say that I'm nice. They would probably freak out if I did talk…

"I don't think so. It has done nothing wrong yet. Just because it is big doesn't mean it is dangerous." The two discussed whether I was dangerous or not. My belly rumbled at me, craving my attention. I grew tired of this argument quickly and to stop it. I tapped Fluttershy's shoulder lightly. She jumped a little in her spot but quickly smiled and asked in her kind voice;

"What is it?" I pointed at me and pointed at my mouth and hoped she would get what I was trying to get through.

"Oh I'm so sorry! I completely forgot! I will fix something to eat right away." She said and quickly darted away to what I supposed was her kitchen. As she left it suddenly became very awkward as Twilight just stared at me as if I would try to kill her any second. I couldn't really blame her. I would probably believe the same in her position.

Slowly as to not frighten Twilight I sat down on the floor and crossed my legs. My leg still hurt a bit but it was not even close to the same amount of pain as before and that allowed me to sit comfortably.
After I successfully sat down Fluttershy appeared out of the kitchen with a bowl with lettuce for me and placed it in my lap. I was hungry and even though I wasn't the biggest fan of salad I quickly devoured it. It didn't make me full, but it definitely made me less hungry.

After finishing the last small pieces of the food I set the bowl down next to me only to find both Twilight and Fluttershy staring at me. I looked at them, confused, since I didn't know why they looked at me like that.

"Oh my… someone was hungry." Fluttershy simply stated. And it was true. I hadn't eaten since around eight. And I looked at a clock on the wall and it pointed to 7. And since it wasn't morning I supposed I hadn't eaten in eleven hours.

"Well. At least now we know it likes salad." Twilight said smiling slightly. I answered with a smile of my own. I hoped they would trust me because I had no plans on hurting them whatsoever. Maybe I could try to write something to them to let them know I was capable of speech and thought.

Fluttershy saw I was thinking about something and asked.

"are you thinking about, little guy?" I quickly left my chain of thoughts and couldn't help but notice that she said "little" even though I was at least twice her height. I thought about if I should simply tell her that I could talk or not. She seemed able to take it since she hasn't really been afraid of me yet.

I collected my courage and prepared for panic as I said.

"Nothing really…" or well… that was what I was trying to say. But I just opened my mouth and nothing came out. Confused by this I tried talking again but all I could do was open and close my mouth. Now I was frightened. Why couldn't I talk? I desperately tried talking again but as before, nothing came out of my mouth. I looked at Fluttershy with a hint of panic in my eyes.

"What's going on?" this time she sounded worried, probably because my eyes were radiating fear or because I was opening and closing my mouth several times. I tried to show her what I meant by pointing at my throat than at my mouth and I shook my head.

"I don't understand what you mean." She said. I saw a paper next to Twilight, who was just watching not really knowing what to do, and I pointed at it.

"It's just a paper." Twilight said this time with a hint of confusion in her voice. I quickly crawled to it, picked it up, and crawled back. I tried imitating writing on the paper.

Twilight, who was slightly scared by my sudden crawl towards her location, asked;

"Do you want a feather and ink?" Happy that she understood I happily nodded. Twilight picked up a feather and a small jar of ink out of a bag behind her, that I didn't see before, and handed it to me.

I quickly tried writing on the paper with the "pen" but to my disappointment nothing happened.
I felt stupid as I remember I had to dip it in the ink first. I dipped the tip in the ink and proceeded to write;

I know how to talk, but my voice is gone. Please don't fear me as I have no intentions to hurt anyone.

I handed my short letter to Fluttershy who just looked at it with a very surprised face before handing it to Twilight. Twilight took it and studied it for a few seconds before saying to Fluttershy;

"I don't understand anything of this. It's just some gibberish!" my hopes were shattered at that moment like a big glass window. Fluttershy looked at me with a sad face and said;

"Sorry. We don't know how to read this. " I sighed in defeat. I had no way of telling them about my voice being gone. I simply sat there not really knowing what to do. I was stuck on a foreign planet with no way to communicate. I had no way of getting back and I had no way to ask for help. Nobody could understand what I wrote and that probably meant I couldn't read any books either.

I couldn't take all of this as everything looked down for me right now and me being the sensitive person I am I could feel the tears leaving my eyes. I put my knees up and rested my arms on them before burying my face on my arms. I cried silently but of course both Fluttershy and Twilight noticed this and Fluttershy was by my side in no time.

"What's the matter?" Fluttershy asked but I couldn't even answer. I felt awkward crying in front of others like this, Even if I had good reasons to cry. I had to man up. I couldn't just sit here and cry. I held back my tears for a few seconds and soon enough I stopped crying at all though my eyes were still slightly red.

Something slowly stroked up and down on my back in a very comfortable way. I turned around and was greeted by a concerned smile from Fluttershy who was slowly rubbing my back.

All this crying had me tired and I was determined to try to find a solution on my own tomorrow. I had one problem though… where would I sleep. Perhaps I could sleep here if it was okay with Fluttershy.

I pointed at myself and put my hands against each other and lay my head on them as if they were a pillow. Luckily for me, Fluttershy understood what I meant.

"Do you want to go to bed?" she asked. I nodded in response and slowly stood up.

"Oh, uhm… I would let you sleep on the guest bed, but Mr. Bear is currently borrowing it." She said. She looked like she was thinking about where I could sleep.

"And my little animals are using the couch. Perhaps you could sleep in the same bed as me? Is that okay?" she added after a few seconds. I felt a little awkward about having to share a bed with a girl, Even if that girl is a horse. Because she isn't just a horse, she is a sentient horse. Swallowing my nervousness I nodded.

"What? Have you gone mad Fluttershy?" Twilight suddenly yelled.

"What if it wants to eat you and just pretend to be nice?" she added said.

"But I can't just let it sleep on the cold hard floor. What if it gets a cold?" Fluttershy answered.

'I am a "he"…' I thought to myself. Twilight seemed to have given up on the conversation.

"Fine!" she yelled before she turned to me.

"But know that if you hurt her, I will personally make sure you get sent to the dungeons of Canterlot." She threatened. Twilight was scary when she was angry and I didn't want her to be mad at me so I slowly nodded in understanding.

"Good." Twilight said.

"Well, I have to return to take care of spike. So good night and please be careful." She said to Fluttershy.

"Good night, twilight." Responded Fluttershy as she waved to her friend. After Twilight left and closed the door behind her Fluttershy said;

"Well I supposed we should go to bed early if you are tired." I just responded with a small nod. And said and done we walked up a small staircase before walking into a room which was Fluttershy's.

Fluttershy walked up to her bed and climbed on before grabbing the quilt and pulling it over herself.
She patted to her left and said;

"It's okay. You can sleep here. I'm always happy to help an animal in need."

Now I felt really like an animal, but Fluttershy couldn't know I was capable of speech and thinking. Well… except me trying to communicate with her that is. But still. I climbed up the bed and only took of my shoes before climbing up next to her. I still felt awkward but I ignored it and curled up in the blanket trying to get myself comfortable.

When I laid myself comfortably and stopped moving she said;

"Goodnight."

'Goodnight.' I thought before I closed my eyes and slowly drifted to sleep next to the new friend of mine.

AN: I'm sorry that the end was a bit rushed but I really wanted this up today…

I tried to keep everyone's personalities like they should be. If you wonder why Fluttershy isn't very "Shy" it's because she believes Vic is just an animal like Mr. Bear or Angel.

I hope that you liked this chapter and I can promise to keep updates coming since I plan for this story to be long. Anyway! Please review and follow!

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Love/ TRoS. (The runner of Stockholm.)

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