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by Lord Despair

Chapter 4: Ch4: Wounded

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Chapter four: Wounded

Ponyville

3:27 PM

Isaiah 1st POV


The repetitive beeping of a heart motor filled my ears. My eyelids slowly lifted, immediately closing due to the blinding light. A dull pain filled my left leg and chest. The smell of sanitized air passed through my nostrils. I could feel the cushions of a hospital bed beneath be, and the sheets that covered my aching body.

"I think he's waking up! Get the doct-" Reported a female voice.

"Shit... what happened?" I groaned in pain as I tried to lean into a siting position.

"Hey, hey, lay back down." Commanded a mans voice, as I felt what seemed like a hoof gently pushing me down.

I almost forgot about the encounter in the forest with the horsey things. When my eyes adjusted to the brightness of the room, a light-brown horse with a horn on it's head and a stethoscope around his neck, looked into my wide eyes.

"Don't panic, don't panic, panicking will only worsen the situation. Calm you're self Isaiah." I thought to my self.

"Sir, are you alright?"

"My leg." I breathed out, trying to calm my self.

"Ah, yes. You're leg did sustain a consider amount of damaged that you received not to long ago. It's healing, same with you're chest. Did you remember what happened to you?" He asked.

"I-I remember that one of the dogs ripped my chest up with it's claws, but I don't know why my left leg is hurting so much."

"Well then, allow me to recall the story the guard told me." Clearing his throat he continued. "When you somehow made the manticore...explode. A fragment of bone imbedded it's self into you're left leg. Soon after that, you passed out from the pain that you were experiencing and the blood that you lost. Right after that, Princess Luna and her guards brought you here. For some reason, you're body wouldn't co-operate properly with our magic, which proved to be a challenge for the medical staff. Plus, we have never seen anything like you before, so we sort of had to wing-it. Anyway, the operation was a success and you'll heal in no time."

"Wait. Did you just say magic?" I asked.

"Yeah, what about it?" He said as he tilled his head.

"Magic doesn't exist. That's impossible." I stated.

"Isaiah. You're talking to a horse with a horn on it's head, and not to mention the winged ones. You remember that blue one that threw the fucking tree." I screamed in my head.

"Um... Doc, where am I?" I started to hyperventilate.

"Calm down. You're in Ponyville Hospital of course!" He proudly stated

"What?" I nearly yelled in confusion.

"You know? Ponyville, Equestria?" He tried to explain.

"..."

"Doctor Healthy, the Princesses are outside to see you." Informed a mare who wore a nurse's cap that had a red cross with small hearts surrounding it. The mare had a white coat, light pink mane and tail, and gentle blue eyes. She too had one of the weird brands, her's was the same emblem that was on her cap.

Is this some type of fashion trend?

"Oh!" Yelped the doctor who was talking to me. "I'll be right there." With those final words he left.

Fuck me. What's going on?

The stallion who left me closed the door with his magic thingy. I could hear faint chatter out side of the door.

"Good morning Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. Are you here to talk to the um... thing?" He praised with a hint of confusion towards me.

"Yes we are here to see you're patient Doctor Health. Is he awake?" Said one of the princesses.

"Yes, he is awake you're majesty. He woke up three minutes ago, I have been talking to him about what happened in the Everfree forest. He seems to be very confused." Answered the brown horse. "It looks like he might of lost a small bit of his memory too."

The door glowed a golden yellow, and opened. A white horse with a long horn and a pair of wings walked in. She had a pair of calm magenta eyes, that somehow showed compassion. Her main and tail contained a set of four colors of light blue, green, light purple, and pink; that flowed in a non-existant breeze. The white horse thing had a golden chest plate, some horse shoes, and a strange crown atop of her head. She didn't seem like the correct size of a horse, none of the other horses did come to think about it. She was around five-feet tall; not including the pointy horn. The white one had a brand of a sun on her flank. Behind her was the blue horse that I met in the forest. Compared to the white one next to her, she was at least half a foot shorter. Behind the two of them, a pair of guards stood at the door way; failing at trying to look intimidating.

"Allow us to introduce ourselves. I'm Princess Celestia, and this is my sister Princess Luna. Together we rule the kingdom that you are now in; Equestria." The newly introduced Princess Celestia announced.

I could only stare in silence.

"Now, could you please give us you're name?"

"It's Isaiah." I answered.

"Now, I have never seen anything like you before. Could you please tell us what you are?" She asked.

"As long as you tell me what you are. I have never met a talking horse with a horn and a pair of wings before." I interjected.

"Um, okay. I'm a pony; a alicorn to be precise. Same as my sister." The Princess answered in slight confusion.

"No you're not. Ponies don't talk, they don't have a pair of wings and a horns on top of their heads." I stated.

Luna was the next one to speak. "May we ask, where are you from?"

"Dustin."

"I've never heard of that." Princess Celestia confessed.

"Um...Texas?" They just stood there and looked at me like I had grown a second head.

"Again, can you please tell us what you are. We're getting off topic." The dark blue alicorn asked, trying to change the subject.

"Human." I croaked out.

"What was that?" Questioned the mare with the sun on her hindquarters.

"Human." I repeated, louder than the first.

A guard in a set of golden armor popped his head out. "Princess Celestia, Twilight Sparkle is here as you requested." Informed the guard.

"I'll be right there. Thank you for informing me of her arrival." Thanked the white alicorn.

Once she left the room. Me and Luna were left alone. "So...I was told that you got me out of the damned forest, thanks. I really appreciate that." I thanked.

"It's no problem. After all you're help most likely saved a good portion of the guards who were with us. That's the last time I bring along a troop of inexperienced guards." She half chuckled. "I was wondering, what was that thing that you were fighting the brutes with?"

"Oh, thats my rifle. Say, where is it? I would feel a lot safer knowing that its not going to be messed around with. Someone could get killed if they started fidgeting with it." I asked.

"It's in the closet to you're left, same with the other belongings that were on you at the time."

"Thanks."

Before we could say anything else. The door opened, behind it was a food trolly being pushed by the same nurse from a while ago.

"Lunch time!" The mare chimed.

Thank god, I'm starving. I thought.

She then picked up the tray with her teeth and set it on a stand over my lap. She then removed the lid off the dish. On the plate was a sandwich and a apple beside it. The mare with the gentle blue eye's then set a glass of water next to the platter.

"Thanks for the food, I'm starving." I muttered when my stomach mumbled for food.

"You're welcome. If you need anything else, just press that red button by you're left side." She pointed out.

Luna looked around the room, trying to find something to occupy herself while I ate.

"Pri-"

"You can just call me Luna if you want." She Interrupted.

"Ok, sure. Luna if you would be so kind, could you please tell me what happened after I passed out?" I asked the princess with the crescent moon brand.

"While you're eating?" The blue mare asked in confusion.

"Sure. I don't see why not." I admitted while I took a bite out of the apple.

Not bad. I thought while I chewed on the crisp red fruit.

She cleared her throat and began. "After you threw that... 'thing' into the manticore, it exploded and a piece of it's ribcage imbedded itself into you're leg. After that you passed out from the amount of blood that you lost and the intense pain that you were in. Once I saw you on the ground in a small pool of yo-"

"Ah-fuck! Why is there a leaf in my sandwich? Is that a flower in that too?" I blurted out.

"That's a daisy sandwich. You've never had one of those?" She quipped.

"No, I haven't. I can't eat grass or flowers for a matter of fact."

"Anyway, once I saw you passed out in a small pool of you're own blood, I tried to teleport you out of the forest but for some reason you were causing a interference."

"Wait. Hold on a second, did you say teleport?" I coughed while drinking water.

"Yes, can you please stop interrupting me?" The princess commanded.

"Fine. As you were saying?"

"You and you're items that were with you are strangely resistant to magic. To compensate, one of the guards had to carry you on his back all the way to the camp that we had outside the forest. Then we loaded you onto a chariot and came here for medical attention." Luna finished.

"Uh." I simply huffed out.

The door swung open again as the nurse who brought me food trotted in.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you're conversation. But it's time for his sponge bath. Princess Luna, can you please give us a few minutes?" The mare with the red medical cross on her flank asked sweetly.

"Of course." Luna made her way to the door before turning around. "Isaiah, after you're bath is finished, Celestia's personal student would like to meet you when you're ready." With those final words she left.

"Um...you too." The nurse said while pointing her hoof at the two armored ponies stationed by the door.

The guards looked at each other and left.

I silently laid on the cushioned bad as the mare held a bucket of water and a sponge in her mouth.

Wow, must suck not to have hands or magic.

The nurse grabbed the blankets with her teeth and began to tug them off of me. The covers slipped off of me right as I noticed that I wasn't wearing any type of clothing; not even a gown.

"Oh shit! Why am I not wearing any clothes?!" I half screamed.

"So I can clean you, silly!" She chirped, fully unaware of the problem until she saw it.

"Don't worry, theres nothing to worry abou-... oh." Our faces turned as red as the apple I ate a couple of minutes ago.

"Do you wan't me to comeback until it re-sheaths?" She suggested.

"About that. Human's don't have sheaths. It kinda stays out." I informed with a flustered face.

"Okay then. I'll work around it, no problem." The mare half-chuckled with a blushing face.

"How is she blushing through a coat of fur?" I muttered in my head.

She started at my shoulders, gently scrubbing it with a soapy sponge. An awkward silence loomed in the air as the mare slowly making her way down to my left arm.

"So...do you have a name?" I asked the lightly blushing mare.

"I'm Nurse Redheart. You can just call me Redheart if you want."

"Well Redheart, I'm Isaiah. Nice to meet you."

Another pregnant pause filled the room as she washed me.

"So...Redheart, what's up with the brands on everyone's hindquarters? Is that some type of fashion statement?"

"Brand? Oh, you mean cutie marks? Their not a fashion statement, their completely natural. You've never seen or heard of one before?" THe mare informed and questioned me.

"No, what can you tell me about them?"

She took a second to ponder the answer in her head. "Well it's pretty simple really. Once a pony finds their special talent, a cutie mark appears on both sides of their flank that relates to their talent." She finished.

"That's strange." I bluntly joked.

A couple seconds passed before she finished.

"I'll be back in a second, just let me dump the water in the drain."

I finally got the chance to look around the room. The room was pretty small, due to the small size of the ponies. I'm pretty sure that if I stood up and raised my arms up, that my fingers would be able to grace the ceiling. The walls had a white coat of paint adoring them. If I needed to go through the door, I would have to slightly tilt my head so I wouldn't bump it. The floor was made out of wood; most likely oak.

Nurse Redheart came back in with her gentle smile.

"Is there anything else you need Isaiah?"

"Um yes, I would like to know where my clothes are."

"You're clothes and other belongings are in the closet. When you arrived you're clothing was dirty and had blood on them. But we didn't wash you're jacket and shoes because we had never seen the material before and we didn't want to damage them." Redheart informed me.

"Thanks."

"You're very welcome." The mare chirped.

A trio of knocks came from the door, it then glowed a purple-ish hue. A unicorn mare with a lavender coat, a navy blue mane and tail with two strips of purple and pink running through it. Once her purple eyes caught me, her jaw dropped and her eyes widened in curiosity.

"I knew Celestia said that you were different; but what the hay are you!?" The mare hollered.

Before I could say anything Redheart answered for me. "Where are you're manners?"

"Oh, sorry." The purple mare said sheepishly while the nurse was giving her the evil eye.

"Anyway, my name is Twilight Sparkle, it's a pleasure to meet you!" She announced happily.

"I have that feeling that I'm not going to be enjoying this..." I groaned in my head.

"What's you're name?" She asked as she tilted her head like a dog who was slightly confused.

"It's Isaiah, and if you are wondering what I am, I'm human." I responded.

"Human? I've never heard of a human before, where are you from?"

"Not around here apparently."

"What is that supposed to mean?" The unicorn asked in confusion.

"Anyway..." I continued. "Princess Celestia sent you. I'm assuming she want's answers from me, I'm I correct?" I theorized.

"You are half correct." Princess Celestia corrected me from behind Twilight. "Just like us, you want answers. We have never seen something such as you before in our entire world, and we would like to try and inform each other."

"Sure, I would like that very much. But I'm really tired. I did-"

"But it's 4:23 in the afternoon!" Twilight interrupted me.

"It's alright Twilight, we should be able to meet each other tomorrow; can we?" The alicorn with a sun on her butt asked.

"I can agree to that." I said with a smile.

"Ok then, goodnight Isaiah." And with those final words, everyone in the room left me alone to sleep. The curtains that covered the window did a mighty fine job of blocking out the sun, so that falling asleep would be an easy feat. Finally closing my eyes, I began to think long and hard on how logic told me to go fuck my self and left.

I can't believe it, talking horses!

Author's Notes:

Yup, heres another.
Sorry that this one took so long, I accidentally hurt my hand with a firework on the 4th of July.
And as always; constructive criticism would be much appreciatived.

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