Tales of Illumination, book 1: Awakening
Chapter 2
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Chapter 2
-_Everfree forest edge_-
I slowly walked towards where I remembered I had seen Fluttershy’s cottage while I fell, my broken hand was a large hindrance, as was several bruises all over my body, I found that my right ankle was sprain, so I grabbed a stick to help me walk, the problem being that this made it slower, so I decided to leave the stick and keep limping there.
After a good 30 minutes or so, I managed to get to the cottage. I approached the door, tripped and… knocked with my face… As I lay there, pondering my existence, the door opened, and I saw that not only Fluttershy was in her cottage, but most of the mane six, due to the pain I felt, I couldn’t focus on what they were saying, just that there was some shouting about a “strange creature”… oh, I see, that’s me that they are yelling about then? I then saw a pony that could only be Fluttershy step out, and I fought through the pain to say “Please, help me,”
In response to my voice, I heard some surprised chatter from inside. Fluttershy looked at my body one time, and ran back inside, her eyes wide. Well, I thought, that was the last thing I expected, I mean; she is the element of kindness after all. A few seconds later, Fluttershy returned with a small basket of medical supplies, and began to work. Oh, I thought that makes a bit more sense than what I thought she was doing.
First, she began to try to realign the bones in my hand which had broken, it was painful, but I grit my teeth and lived through it, she put several sticks on the back of that hand, probably to keep the bones aligned, and wrapped it in a bandage. She then got to work on my foot, for which she had me flip onto my back, held my foot straight… somehow, and wrapped it in a bandage, but much, much tighter than the one on my hand, but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be.
When she was done, I stood up, leaning on a post, and putting all my weight on my uninjured, left foot. I smiled at Fluttershy, and said “thank you so much, I have no way of repaying you though, miss.”
Fluttershy looked at me, smiled, and said “Oh, it’s no problem, but I’ve never seen anything like you before, what are you?”
“A human, as for my name, its Terrance Markie,” I said, still holding a smile on my face. (which was starting to become a little painful) I’m surprised, Fluttershy isn’t being very… well, shy right now… what is up with this? I thought to myself, utterly baffled.
“Oh, I’m Fluttershy,” she said, and begun to walk in, “Please, come in.”
Is this really Fluttershy? I’ve never seen her act so… brave in the show, why here, is it because im not a pony, or a dragon? Meh, probably that, I thought as I walked in slowly, still with a slight limp.
Fluttershy’s cottage was exactly how I remember it from the show. My train of thought was interrupted when I saw several ponies in the living room: Rainbow Dash, and Twilight Sparkle. YES, I thought, whilst pretending to be emotionless, my 3 favorite ponies other than Derpy are here! I coughed to clear my throat, and said “hello,”
This then lead to everypony (wait… did I just write… meh, whatever) staring at me. I then heard Rainbow Dash say “Wait, it can talk?”
“Of course I can talk, why wouldn’t I be able to?” I asked, fake annoyance on my face, I wanted to act as though I knew nothing about them you see.
“No, it’s just we didn’t expect you to be capable of speech,” said Twilight, eyes wide as she stared at me, “and, while I’m at it, what are you?”
“My species is Homo-Sapiens, or humans, and my name is Terrance, Terrance Markie, and you are?” I asked.
“My name is Twilight Sparkle, and would you mind if I asked you some questions about yourself?” Twilight asked
“Go right ahead, I got nothing better to do,” I said.
“Ok,” said Twilight, “first of all, where are you from? I’ve never seen anything like you before in my life,”
I smiled, it was such an obvious question, I responded with, “Well, I’m from a different world, known as earth, the country I’m from is called the United States of America”
“Really? That’s interesting,” Twilight said, writing everything I said, and probably everything I did, in a notebook, “So, how did you come to be in Equestria?”
“Well, I was warped here by a strange ball of light, which said it was a spirit, if this is true than a creature called a ‘wisp’ teleported me here, as a second chance at life.”
“Wait,” Twilight said, suddenly stopping her writing, and looked at me, “What do you mean ‘second’ chance at life?”
“You really don’t want to know,” I said, “so what is your next question?”
“Well, I was hoping you would tell me about your people,” Twilight said, readying her quill and papers.
“Well, humans are an omnivorous species, this means that we can eat either plants or animals,” there was a slight cringe when I said this, “Although our kind can survive on just one. Humans have a natural instinct to fight each other, it’s sort of a flaw with our entire race. Many of my people are good people, but most of those in positions of power are often corrupted by the power they hold. My country itself elects a new leader every four years, although their leader is normally just a way for the entire country to pass any blame onto someone else. That’s really all that I can say off the top of my head, if I think of anything important later, I will let you know, anything else?”
“Well, there is one more thing,” She said, “You said your people have a natural instinct to fight each other, is it… dangerous?”
I sighed at this one, “Twilight, you have no idea, in the 2 wars my country is fighting right now, there thousands of soldiers dying every day. Hundreds more die from muggings, where someone will beat up or kill a random person, and take their money. Some people will even torture random strangers to death, like what happened to my family…” in the last sentence my eyes started to well up.
“I’m sorry Terrance,” Twilight said, “I didn’t know.”
“No, its ok,” I said to her, “In fact, I doubt I would have opened up this much with anyone else, thank you.”
On that note, I collapsed on the couch I was sitting on, and all was black.
I own nothing! BWAHAHAHA!
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