Guardian Chap 2

by ~Sunjian54

The Equestrian Guardian

Chapter 2

David slowly opened his eyes with great difficulty. His whole body ached and he felt exhausted. He struggled to move, but he was so tired even moving his arms was a massive challenge. "You need to rest, go back to sleep." A voice spoke to David but his eyes were so blurry that he couldn't see who it was or where he was. "Who… are you?" he asked, but his body gave out and he fell asleep before he could hear the voices answer.

David opened his eyes and was immediately attacked by a ray of sunlight directly into his eyes. As he slowly sat up in the bed he was resting in, a sharp pain shot through his shoulder blade. He reached over to rub it when he realized it was wrapped in bandages along with both of his hands. It hurt to move his shoulder even a little bit, "It's still dislocated… great." He slowly got up from the bed and placed his feet on the ground only to have them collapse under his weight. He slowly got up and tried to walk, slowly hobbling his way to a stair case that led downstairs to who knows where.  As he slowly stumbled down the staircase he began to hear voices talking to one another. "Be careful Spike, those books are really important to me." One voice said. "I know that" the other voice replied. David reached the bottom of the stairs and peered around the corner of the wall. He saw a pony quite different from Luna; this pony was a lavender shade and had purple hair and a unicorn horn, and what appeared to be a dyed pink strand of hair running down her mane. The other figure looked like some sort of lizard baby with green and pink scales. As David watched the lizard like creature place the books on the shelf he noticed one shelf was beginning to lean forward, and the pony was right underneath it! The books had been crammed into the shelf and it couldn't take the weight. He quickly dashed from behind the wall and tackled the pony out of the way of the bookcase which fell with a crash. "What's the big idea?" she shouted from underneath him. David stood up and helped the pony back onto all fours. He pointed to the bookcase, "Is that how you thank someone who just saved you from becoming a pancake."

He asked annoyed.

The pony then realizing what had happened wrapped David in a tight hug. "Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!" she continued to speak as David ran his hand through her hair. "I think I should be thanking you, after all you did patch me up" he said indicating the bandages. The pony let go of David and shook her head, "That wasn't me actually. It was one of my friends that bandaged you up." David looked around his surroundings now that he could see clearly. "Am I in some sort of library?" he asked, since the place was filled with books. "Yep, you're in the Ponyville Library which is also my house." She reached out a hoof and David shook it with his good arm. "I'm Twilight Sparkle" the pony said with a smile on her face. David smiled back, "I'm David, nice to meet you Twilight." As soon as he finished shaking her hoof however, pain shot through his shoulder again. He grunted in pain and fell to his knees. "Are you okay David?" Twilight asked looking extremely worried. "I'm fine, but I need to put my shoulder blade back in place" he said rubbing his bandaged shoulder. "Okay, but how do we do that?" Twilight yelped in surprise when David singlehandedly popped his shoulder back into place with almost no effort. "Ooh didn't that hurt a lot?" she asked. David smiled with tears running down his face trying to put on the tough guy act. "Nope, just a little sting was all I felt." On the inside however David was screaming bloody murder at the pain he had just foolishly experienced. "So… how did I end up here Twilight" he said shrugging his shoulders. Twilight led him over the fallen bookcase and over to a table with a jug of water on it. The jug made realize how thirsty he was, almost as if she was reading his mind however, Twilight levitated the jug and poured David a glass. "Here, you're probably parched from resting so long." David took the glass with a shocked look on his face. "How did you do that?"  Twilight smiled as she poured her own glass, still levitating the jug. "All unicorn ponies can use magic."

David was about to say something when he heard a shout and something grab onto his head and start yanking him around. "You stay away from Twilight you weirdo, you hear me!" As David was slung around he could hear Twilight yelling at something or someone to get off of him. The struggle continued until David banged into another bookshelf causing books to fall onto him. Twilight reached out a hoof and helped David out of the book pile and then turned him to face the same lizard like creature as before. "This…" she said with a sigh. "Is my assistant Spike." "Number One assistant" he corrected from beneath the books he was buried under. David smiled and shook his head, "Pretty tough lizard, to be an assistant." Spike shot out from under the books and looked up at David his eyes burning. "I'm a DRAGON!" he shouted. "A baby dragon" Twilight corrected. "Anyway Spike you owe David an apology for attacking him like that." David got down on his knees eye-level with spike, who had put his fists up. "Apologies for are babies. Real men apologize like this" David put his fist forward and indicated for Spike to hit it, which Spike did. "It's called a Brofist, it's how men apologize, right Spike?" Spike stared and David and smiled,"Yeah, how real men apologize!" David started to laugh and they both laughed with him. For the moment David didn't know where he was or how he got there but to him it began to feel like the family he had lost those years ago.

Dear Princess Celestia, I am pleased to inform you that the human we recovered is alive and well. Also even though it was the first day we officially met, he's already taught me something about friendship. He's taught me that no matter how different someone or something is from you, you can always make friends and learn new things from one another. Even as I write this David continues to wrestle with spike teaching him moves like a supplex and full-nelson. I hope to introduce David to my friends tomorrow so he can begin to intermingle with pony society. As always Your Faithful Student Twilight Sparkle.

P.S: When we found David a few days ago the sword he was carrying was glowing a bright white/silver color, do you know what this could mean?

Princess Celestia finished reading the letter. Her face showed she was gravely concerned, but she quickly hid it with her kind smile. "It seems your friend is doing well Luna." She said addressing her sister beside her. "I will make arrangements for him to see us soon, but in the meantime… GUARDS!" The royal guard appeared on call as quickly as possible. "Inform Bio the Captain of the Guard, I have an assignment for him." Next Chapter: Chapter 3 Estimated time remaining: 4 Hours, 55 Minutes