The (Mis)adventures of Nava: Book One

by Navanastra

First published 29th of June, 2016

Have you ever imagined that one day you would wake up in a strange new world in an even stranger new body? Well I never have but it still happened and now I am running around in my OC’s body in a land I thought was nothing more than a cartoon

(This Fic has a sequel, or a continuation as you like.)

Have you ever imagined that one day you would wake up in a strange new world in an even stranger new body? Well I never have but it still happened and now I am running around in my OC’s body in a land I thought was nothing more than a silly children’s cartoon.

Well here I am…in the land where friendship is supposedly magic as an alicorn no less, staying with the two pegasi sisters while trying to make sense of my situation and keeping my whole alicorn appearance a secret…especially from the OTHER two alicorn’s. God knows what happens when these ponies find out what I really am...Both now and what i used to be.

Hopefully, one day…all of this will make sense and let’s just hope I don’t cause too much chaos while trying to find answers and trying to find a way back home.

(STORY GOT FEATURED IN 25/7/2016 )

(This story was somewhat inspired by "The Third Roommate" and "Fleeting Flames" but will still have its own nature, style and obviously plot. Also big thank you to WrittenWord333 for helping me figure out the plot for this story.)

(Cover art by me.)

Chapter 1: The worst wake up call EVER

//The (Mis)adventures of Nava//

/Chapter 1: Worst wake up call EVER/

Story by: Navanastra

Edited by: WrittenWorld333

“Oh, my, god, why do I feel sooo sore?”

Waking up is one thing…waking up feeling like as if an elephant has been using you as his personal sitting cushion all night long is another, and let me tell you it feels horrible…like really horrible. I generally have no idea how it feels to have a hangover simply because…well I don’t drink but I guess this is somewhat close to it…I guess.

Yup close enough because now I also have a pounding headache to go with it. Bloody fantastic. Is there anything else on my body that doesn’t feel like it’s about to die…anything...please?

The other thing I quickly noticed besides my body killing itself with pain was how unfamiliar all of this felt. For once I could tell that I was NOT laying on my nice soft comfy mattress I came to recognize whenever waking up, instead what greeted me is the simple feeling of laying yourself down on something that would explain why, oh why my body feels as rugged and stiff as a plank of old used wood.

I was laying on a rock, a cold hard rock.

Why? How? When? I really don’t know, in fact I don’t know anything besides what happened the day before. Which really is strange and worrying since I never had the displeasure of experiencing memory loss in such a way.
Am I really sure I didn’t just suddenly decided to go out, buy a bottle of funny juice and drown myself with it just for the heck of it?

Nooo…no of course not, one I don’t have money and two I really never liked the taste of alcohol to begin with. Besides wine…which I am positive we don’t have in the house simple because we only get some during special occasions like Christmas or New Year and stuff like that.

WHAT THE HELL AM I EVEN DOING!!?? I have much more important problems to think of than liquor. Where the heck am I and what the heck happened. For once I can tell beyond the stiffness and pain that I am NOT in my room judging by the sound and smell around me.

I can hear leaves rustling in the wind, owls hoooing, wolves howling and everything around me smells like nature.

If…that’s even how you’re supposed to evaluate nature.

I don’t know, it kind of smells like how grass starts to smell after a rainy day so I guess I can say it smells like nature.

I’m losing track of the severity of my situation again aren’t I?

Well that’s just great, I can’t even focus on a single topic without derailing myself with all this extra nonsense my mind is known for, it would definitely be easier IF MY BODY WASN’T AS STIFF AS A BOARD AND WOULDN’T FEEL LIKE IT WAS ON THE VERGE OF DYING, THIS IS BY FAR THE WORST WAKE UP CALL I EVER HAD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE, PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!
Speaking of waking up…why haven’t I opened my eyes yet? Oh…right…my eyelids feel as if they are made of lead…great.

Everything about my body feels like as if it has just been through a lot by the way it hurts and how...unfamiliar it feels as well…actually…wait a minute.

I…I do feel different…like really different…did I suddenly grow extra limbs all of the sudden and why the heck can’t I feel my hands or fingers. For that matter WHY CAN'T I FEEL MY FEET, WHERE ARE MY CLOTHES?

“I NEED to open my eyes NOW…I need to see where I am and what happened to me”

Who knew that opening your eyes would ever become so slow and tedious that it almost felt it wasn’t worth the effort, but with a bit of grunt I finally managed to get my eyeballs out of their covers and into the light of the outside world, and the very first thing that greeted me was nothing but a blurry dark mess of dark colors in almost unrecognizable shapes and sizes. Though it was not the only image that greeted me. There was…something else, something much clearer and much closer and more obvious than the rest, something that was right at the very bottom of my peripheral vision.

“I need my glasses…where the heck are my glasses?”

Moving my head and neck was almost a torture on its own, I don’t want to sound like a broken record but just like the rest of my body they were sore and stiff and moving them hurt like ass.

With a heavy grunt I managed to move my head to the left in hopes to find what I was looking for, it also doesn’t help the fact that I was dragging my head right across the hard rough surface of the rock I was laying against which just made this even less enjoyable than it already was. Only to eventually find out that my glasses were not there at all. Great all the effort wasted for nothing.

“Uhhhh…why couldn’t I have woken up on a field of grass in state or even better MY BED!!!”

At this point I felt really annoyed, if I ever want to find out where the heck I was, what the heck happened to me and why I needed to find my glasses because without them I was almost as blind as a freaking bat.

Greeting my teeth in discomfort as I slowly turned my head all the way to my right I began to quickly note on how long my hair felt like. I mean shit it’s all over my eyes as well, moving across my vision while turning my head.

And…and did I just saw red hair? Did I really just saw a red spot on my normal natural black hair? For once I know that my hair is normally much shorter than it feels right now and second I never EVER have used any hair dye in my life because the idea of putting anything on my hair that wasn’t shampoo was always cringey though for me…unless…this is not dye at all.

This was slowly becoming more and more surreal with every passing second which is somewhat pointless since the pain I felt all over my body was certainly the real deal. No amount of hallucination, dreaming or drugs can emulate the pain I am feeling now.

After a slow and gruesome trek of turning my head fully back to the right I eventually sighed in utter relief for the first time since I awoke to see the blurry outlines of my beloved and trusty glasses just laying lazily beside my head.

With as much effort as I could muster and gritted teeth I began to turn my whole body around in an effort to fully face the right so that I have a much easier time grabbing them. Every muscle and joints in my arm were screaming at me as I slowly moved them towards my glasses in an attempt to seize them, only to end up halting my efforts when a new and frightening sight entered my already bad vision.

“What the….is…is that my arm? Where…where is my hand…WHERE IS MY BLOODY HAND?”

Ok, fuck this. I need to grab my glasses ASAP and see exactly what the MOTHERFUCKING fuck is going on here.

Well if I wasn’t all panicky than I am definitely all panicky now as I desperately try to grab a hold onto my glasses with those handles stubs I have now without breaking it, easier said than done when you have no hands and when your arms are shaking more violently than they would during a typical Japanese earthquake.

Against all impossibilities and the fact that all of my erratic movements were just wonderful for my already aching body, I finally managed to, by some miracle, place my glasses right there where they belong finally allowing me to fully see the world around me as sharp and crisp as a 4k TV.

The first thing I saw after slipping my glasses back over my eyes was obviously my surroundings. I could finally see that my earlier suspicions were indeed spot on as nothing but a dark, gloomy and overgrown forest graced my now crisp and clear vision with just a few light sources penetrating the thick canopy above.

What really was even more confusing and also a bit frightening is how…unreal everything looked…everything around me despite being dark and foggy where just so…unrealistically vibrant in colors. Something you would usually only see in cartoons or comics.

Another thing that automatically sets alarm bells off in my head where how familiar this all looked to me. I could have sworn that I have seen this art style before somewhere but I just cannot put my finger on it…if I still had fingers that is.

That last thought though immediately snapped me back to severity of my situation as my thought quickly went back towards my handles arms that I just discovered.

With great fear and dread I slowly began to move my arms upwards towards my field of vision so that I can finally have a good sharp look at them.

My heart immediately sank down into my knees at the realization that greeted me.

Not only where my hands completely gone but my whole arms looked different and strange as well.

I…I had hooves…hooves covered in what I can only tell was in some kind of really pale brown looking fur, in fact my whole arm was covered in fur from its tip all the way up to my shoulders.

Fur I swear I didn’t have just a few days ago let alone hooves in places where my hands should be.

I really started to panic now as I continued to stare blankly into my handles, fur covered arms, sweating and breathing heavily through my mouth as my heart was pounding rapidly against my chest.

Millions upon millions of thoughts raced through my mind trying to formulate some sort of explanation, some sort of logic in how this was scientifically possible.

I needed more…I needed to know more, just to be sure. I needed to know more to make sure that this wasn’t just some sick joke or hallucination.

Completely ignoring my body's protests I began for forcefully sit myself upright, keeping myself steady with my now not so normal looking arms as I started to inspect myself much closer.

What I saw immediately send shivers of shock through my spine as my eyes went wide in disbelief.

I was no longer human. The body I was born with, the body in which I grew up with, the body that I came to see in a mirror every day when going to take a shower was now completely gone. It had been replaced by an unrecognizable alien body that was covered in the same colored fur as my arms. My legs were no longer human legs but more like hind legs of that of a quadruped, ending in the same hoof covered in fur as my now so called arms. A long black silky tail tipped in crimson was visible from under me, and by looking and feeling around my back I even spotted what I could only guess where a pair of wings extending themselves right behind my shoulders, which pretty much solved the mystery I had earlier about the sensation of suddenly having extra limbs.

All of this realization combined and it was a miracle that I was still conscious and not about to just faint from shock.

“Ok…ok calm down…hyperventilating is not going to get you anywhere or solve your issues…just…just calm down…everything will be just fine and dandy.”

It was then during my attempts to calm myself down when a thought suddenly entered the chaos that was my current mind. A snap of realization as one particular memory suddenly surfaced. A Really crazy and impossible idea but I still needed to be 100% sure before I can confirm this idea I had in my head, but for that I needed to see my face first.

Observing my surrounding in hope to find something, anything that could help me give me a much better look of myself I managed to spot a small pond just a few meters away from me from where I was sitting.

“That’s convenient…at least that explains why this place would smell like wet grass.”

My mind was set, I needed to somehow get over there without killing myself as my body was still on the verge of shutting down on how sore and stiff it felt.

“Time to roll down the rock I suppose…this is going to suck I know it.”
With a heavy sight and a heavy grunt I slowly laid myself back down onto the rocky surface in an attempt to carefully roll myself of this somewhat large rock I was resting on.

With a small yelp I managed to not so gracefully roll myself of the edge only to land onto the equally rough surface of the forest floor below, head first and with a heavy grunt of pain at the end.

“For the love of…fuck…why does this has to be so difficult, first I get removed from my home, than I get transformed into…into this thing I am now with no memories and recollections of how, when, why, and now I get to enjoy the pain of hitting my head onto the ground and tasting forest floor dirt…why me, WHY?”

Pulling my head out from the ground and spitting out the dirt in my mouth with disgust I eventually started to crawl myself over towards the small pond by digging my…front hooves into the dirt and dragging myself forwards with great difficulty.

“Come one…just a…few…more…I swear…this better…be…worth…the effort…ohh my muscles…”

I eventually made it with a heavy sigh of relieve as I simply laid there for a few more moments to catch my breath and rest my aching arms and legs.

After a while I began to steel myself for what was to come, this was it, I would finally have a good front view look on what has become of me.

I closed my eyes as I pushed myself over the edges of the water. I let out a calming breath as I prepared myself.

I opened my eyes and time stopped. What I saw in front of me was…unbelievable, despite that something deep within my mind suddenly clicked as i continued to stare at my own reflection.

What stared back at me was not the face of a person but the face of what could only described as a pony.

A PONY at least that explains what I have been seeing under my vision this entire time...the…the edges of a snout…my snout.

Other features i could easily see was the long horn sticking out of my now long black hair with the right side of my bangs colored in red rather than jet black like the rest of my hair.

Thankfully though the only feature that still stayed the same to my old self in comparison to everything else where my dark brown eyes.

I remember now where I have seen all of this before…I remembered now what all of this is. The art style…the colors…my…new…form….

I immediately knew who I was and what I was and I just couldn’t believe it.

This realization was the final straw for me as I could no longer keep myself from fainting.

I quickly lost my strength as the world around me started to fade away.

Blackness filled my vision and I felt no more.

It was rather a relief, actually.

Author's Notes:

Hello there i like to give a BIG shout out to my editor WrittenWord333 for helping me figure out future plot points and idea's with this story. Without his help this fic wouldn't be possible.

So you can say this fic was made equally between us.

Also for some of the readers who also read "The imperial ace" and wondered why i haven't uploaded a new chapter yet, this is one of the reasons why i haven't because i was busy working on this new story.

Chapter 2 to 5 are already written but still need proofreading and editing of course. I am currently working on chapter 6 as we speak. But don't worry "The imperial ace" is not dead and i will upload the new chapter whenever its done editing. (which is hard btw)

Thank you guys for reading my work.

Chapter 2: The Big Scary Forest (Slight re-edit)

Author's Notes:

Sorry for the long wait guys, but anyway here it is chapter 2.

Also a little bonus. I drew a pic of Nava, how he looks like as a pony.

/Chapter 2: The Big Scary Forest/

Edited by: WrittenWord333

“No….no please no…get away from me….please, NOOOOOO!!!”

My eyes flew open as I returned to the waking world, breathing heavily as my body was shaking and covered in sweat.

It took me a few moments to calm myself from the vivid nightmare I just escaped from.

The dream was horrid to say the least. I had nightmares before prior to this but not as realistic as this one.

I could still feel the chills of… of those massive numbers of yellowish eyes staring at me, coming closer and closer towards me as I desperately tried to get away from them, running deeper and deeper into the abyss that surrounds me, engulfing me.

The multiple echo's of deep deep growling and and snarling were still ringing through my ears somewhat and I was still breathing heavily.

“What…what was that? What exactly was chasing me? It sounded like...a horde of dogs or something like that. Well I guess it doesn't really matter now I guess. It was all just a nightmare.” I thought to myself

I gave a heavy sigh. At least it was over, sure I was still very much on edge from the experience but at least it was over and I was back in the conscious world.

Looking around me pretty much confirmed my suspicions that I am in fact still very much at the same spot I was when I passed out, still in the same gloomy, dark and curiously cartoony looking forest I found myself in the first time around.

I lift one of my arms and surprise, surprise I still had a hoof instead of a hand, completely destroying any ideas I had that my previous experience was nothing more than a lucid dream or hallucination.

I was a real pony, in the world of equestria.

It was then when another worrying though struck me as I sat there looking at new transformed body.

“How long am I going to be stuck here?”

THAT was a really good question, how long am I going to be staying here? Is there ever going to be a chance for me to get back home? Will I ever see my family again, my old home, my old life? Will I be stuck here for the rest of my days never to see or even get a chance to say goodbye to my family or tell them that I was alright?

Fear and worry began to well up inside my heart as all these depressing thoughts dominated my mind.

A few tears escaped my eyes as I closed them, simply laying there on the ground and letting the gravity of my situation slowly sink in.

“Why me…why not someone else…I mean…yes, sure I drew a lot of art and read a lot of fan made stuff but I never…ever liked watching the damn show itself…so why me when there are so many more people more suitable for this kind of stuff than me…I never even was one of those dedicated fans who desperately wanted to get a chance to visit this place. So why the FUCK ME??!!” I ranted in my mind in both anger and frustration as a few more tears escaped my eyelids.

Thankfully though I eventually managed to calm myself down after letting all of my sorrow, fear, anger and frustration out and I began to carefully sit myself upright as I felt water dripping down along my back.

I never really never noticed it at the time, simply because my mind and emotions were too busy with wrapping my fragile sanity around the impossibility of my situation to realize that my head was actually dipped halfway into the water when I lost consciousness, luckily with my face above the water otherwise I might have never woken up at all.

Another thing I quickly took note of is how much more relaxed and calm my new body felt, no more pain, no soreness and no more stiff joints like it had been when I had first woken up.

It was really strange but still an inviting feeling nonetheless. Which simply meant painful dragging and grinding along the forest floor were now a thing of the past.

Which only left me with one more problem to tackle.

“How do you walk as a quadruped?” Was my thought as I simply sat there looking at my four new behooved limbs.

I simply shrugged, no pain no gain. If I ever want to get out of here alive and maybe find my way towards civilization or at least shelter I simply have to accept the fact that I am probably going to fall onto my face a lot while trying to do so.

I rolled over myself onto my stomach with a bit of a grunt to give myself the best possible position to use all of my limbs to lift myself up on all fours.

With a bit of a hard start I eventually managed to push myself up using my front legs first to lift my upper body from the ground, followed up by my hind legs until I was standing secure on all fours for the first time. Though a bit shaky at first.

What really surprised me yet again was how initially easy it was to get myself up on all fours. It felt…natural to me, which is weird knowing that I have been bipedal my whole life.

I began to smile at my small achievement and was about to really take my first few steps in this world when I abruptly lost my footing (or hoofing if you want to be specific) and slammed head first onto the ground.

“Why am I not surprised? Stupid quadruped body.” I mumbled into the dirt.

I slowly got myself back up with an annoyed growl and dusted myself off, checking if my glasses were still intact. To my relief they were.

It was then when something in the corner of my eye caught my attention.

My eyes went wide at what I saw.

There laying right under the rock where I originally woke up upon where two items I immediately recognize as one of my own. My old yellow and red colored scarf and my old Trilby.

Seeing these two item I used to have back at my old world here was baffling to me. Well sure having my glasses at my side here was all fantastic and wonderful and such, but how two more of my other procession made it here as well was both confusing and surprising to me to say the least.

I mean ,yay having more of my own stuff here as well is great and all (at least I don’t have to wander around this world completely naked) but the fact that I somehow managed to miss them entirely the first time around was bit off-putting.

But then again I guess I was too busy with other things at the time so I really shouldn’t be surprised.

Carefully making myself over to them and this time making sure that I don’t tangle myself on my own legs, I grabbed both my old scarf and Trilby with my mouth and place them both to their respected places with one of my hooves.

With everything done and taken care of I began to look around, sighing to myself when I saw nothing but more and more forest, rock, bushes and vines with no clear path at sight.

“Where to go? Where to go? That is the question. I mean…I have read enough fanfics made by others to understand that I might be in the middle of the Everfree forest. But where do I go now?”

“Wait…if I am in the Everfree forest…than means…? Yup got to move and make sure nothing with sharp teeth and glowing eyes can find me”

I picked a direction and began to move, making sure to keep my surrounding in check to spot any movement or any other suspicious activity.

“This is going to be a long…long night.”
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Somewhere else deep in the same forest.

“Just admit it already, Cloud, you got us lost didn’t you?”

“Well…uhm…hehe…maybe…maybe not…ok, fine we're lost.” I answered my sister in utter defeat as I sunk my head low in self disappointment.

“Ugh, all of this wouldn’t be so bad if our wings weren’t broken during our last weather assignment which, I would like to remind you, was your fault.”

“Hey it’s not MY fault that Thunderlane pushed up that cloud in front of me and was blocking my view. How would I know that you were right below me?”

“Well you would if you would LISTEN during the briefings in stead of doodling on your desk, then you would know that I was assigned to moving the clouds from below and you were explicitly told NOT slam into me at full speed.”

“Well that’s because…”

“ANNNND it was also YOUR clever idea to chase a little fox today into the Everfree forest after having stolen an apple from your grocery bag you bought today at the market.”

I shut up. To be honest, running into the Everfree for just an apple really wasn’t one of my brightest ideas ever.

“OK, FINE, FINE!…I bucked up...happy?”

“Kind of, but not really. We still have this, oh I don’t know, serious problem of being lost in perhaps the most dangerous forest in all of Equestria.”

“Only half as dangerous when you’re on your period.” I muttered.

“What was that?!”

“Nothing, nothing don’t worry.”

Ugh…being stuck in a dangerous forest sucks balls, but being stuck in a dangerous forest with a nagging sister is even worse.

Not to mention that her constant nagging might attract…unwanted followers, especially at night.

I should probably tell her to keep her complaining down a notch because we are in the Everfree but know how much i have been...well...bucking up lately to an even retarded level (i sadly have to admit) She most likely won't listen to me and just keep nagging.

Me and Flitter began to shiver as a cold breeze began to blow past us from above reminding me that traveling a forest, really any forest for that matter, at night is usually a bad idea for most ponies, and judging by the look my sister was giving she probably thought so too.

We are already in a nice wide clearing so a campfire would now be a good idea, that and I am FREEZING.

“Hey it's dark and cold anyway Flitter, let’s make camp for the night. Running around these woods in pitch darkness won’t get us back home anytime soon. What do you think?”

“Yeah sure…why not I’m tired anyway.”

“Do you still remember how to make fire the old fashion way?”

“Of course I do…again unlike you I actually paid attention to our scout leaders back during our fillyscout days.”

“Yeah, yeah always having to pull out the old ‘I never learn or listen’ card”

“I have to…you might actually learn something.” She answered me with a grin.

I simply stick my tongue out to her as both me and Flitter went about trying to find some good dry wood and timber to make our campfire.

Man not being able to fly really sucks dicks and getting stared down by a bunch of yellow glowing eyes behind some bushes is annoying as well…wait yellow eyes?

I froze when I realized that we were being watched. I slowly turned myself back towards my sister who was busy sticking her head under a bush.

“Ohm…sis?”

“Yes what is it?”

“We…uhm…might have a problem.”

“Ugh…what now.” She responded as she popped her head back out to look at me with an annoyed sigh which quickly morphed into an expression of fear when she saw what I saw in front of me.

“Uh…I think we should run.”

“Oh you think?”

Right after that one of these creatures suddenly revealed itself as it slowly moved its way into the moonlight above us.

It was a large Timberwolves followed soon by the rest of its pack as they all suddenly emerged from behind the trees and bushes, slowly approaching us from multiple directions snarling and growling and looking mighty hungry for some pray as there stench began filling the air around us.

My heart pumping rapidly in my chest as fear and dread filled my mind and body as we realized that we were surrounded.

Both me and my sis slowly backing away as these predators slowly moved closer and closer to us, forming a semi-circle round me and flitter.

Than a loud ominous sounding howl suddenly erupted from behind the shadows and then basically all Tartarus broke lose as one of the Timberwolves suddenly burst forth and started charging directly towards us.

“RUN” Was all I could get out before me and Flitter galloped it out of here.

All this trouble for a stolen apple, me and my stupid antics.

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“I swear…sometimes it feels these trees are actually watching me…and those creepy claw shaped branches are not helping.” I thought in worry as I continued my trek through these woods.

A few hours have passed since I started my trek and I swear in person the everfree forest looks FAR more creepier and intimidating than in the show. These old looking trees, those distant growls, howls and other animal (or monster) noises and these long dark shadows and constant fog are all things that make the hair on my back stand on the edge. Oh and it obviously doesn’t not help that it’s in the middle of the night as well, making the already poor visibility within this ridiculously overgrown jungle even worse.

During that time I tried my best to occupy my mind with other important things that I will have to solve as soon as I get out of this bloody forest. Like the idea in how I am going to present myself to the locals when I unavoidably come across them.

Im mean for starters I am a freaking Alicorn (for reason unknown) and the few little things I know about Alicorn is they are supposedly be some of the most powerful beings in this world, at least in terms of magic. How am I supposed to present myself knowing that my race is basically regarded as almost demi-gods?

Short answer I don’t.

Letting the populace know that there is suddenly ANOTHER Alicorn running lose that no one knew of would most certainly attract all kinds of unwanted attention, especially from the two rulers. Oh god no, I do not look forwards in having to deal with these two or any secret villain who might get an interested in me as well.

In other words I need to keep my true race a secret, maybe finding a way how to hide my wings and come off as a simple looking unicorn, simple because for two reasons. One I know for a fact that I am never really going to use my wings anyway simply because I am afraid of heights and two because I am afraid off bloody heights.

But anyway I guess I can focus on that problem on a future date but for now let’s just get back to the present.

The problem in being inside this mind freaking forest.

At least now I understand why these ponies avoid these woods like the plague, especially with the knowledge that monsters inhabit these parts of the lands as well.

A though that really keeps me on the edge as I constantly have to look around to make sure nothing is following me.

I swear I have seen a pair of glowing red eyes behind some bushes just a an hour ago…or it could also be my scary imagination, who knows.

The point is this place is freaking scary. I have never been more paranoid in my whole life than i am right now walking through these woods...or is it trotting now?

The sooner I can get out of here the better, for me and my sanity. Because I swear I am starting to see things in the corner of my vision.

“Why the hell did I though that venturing out was even a good idea, I should have just stay put in my spot and at least waited for morning to arrive. The small pond I woke up at was nicely covered and secluded from almost all side...so why?” I whispered as I continue to look around franticly.

It’s really at this point where being a Bat-pony would really be more beneficial than being an alicorn at least then I could see more than just 50 meters in front of me and finally debunk the notion if I am really seeing things or not.

*Rustle

“What…?”

*Rustle rustle
“I…I hear rustle’s…oh shit…something was following me…I knew it”

My body froze as the rustle’s sounds were slowly getting louder and louder. My heart rate increased and I began to sweat as a feeling of dread I have never felt before began to well up inside of me.

The rustling became louder and louder. I desperately wanted to run desperately wanted to get away from this place as quickly as possible but I felt it was already too late, whatever it was it is moving faster towards me than I could ever outrun it, especially how frozen in fear I am at the moment.

“This is it…I knew my luck would run out sooner or later.” I thought to myself as steeled myself and waited for my assailant to show itself.

The rustle’s were coming closer and by the sound of it where coming from one of the bushes in front of me.

What will it be? A bear? A wolf?A Cocatrice? A MANTCORE?

*squeak

…or a Rabbit…

Yup a Rabbit, I’m getting scared by a rabbit…

Thank god though it’s just a Rabbit.

I sighted in utter relief as I watched the Rabbit quickly run past me and slip off into another bush to my right. I quickly calmed my breathing and chuckled nervously as I wiped the sweat from my forehead.

“Man…see what this place can do to your mind, and I really thought that it might have been a…”

“Heeeeeeelp!!!”

I tensed up again.

“What…what was that? Did I really heard a…”

“Somepony help us!!”

“Yup I did…I really did.”

I slowly began to panic again. Something or more likely someone was here in the forest with me, and judging by the sound not far away either. Which means whatever was…making them shout for help was pretty close by as well.

“Oh god what should I do what should I do?” I frantically asked myself in my head.

“Should…should I really go an try to help these…these peoples…err i mean ponies? I mean…shit I am somewhat of a coward and running head first in into danger is one of the last things I ever want to do.”

“Somepony…anypony please help us!!!”

“Wait there is more than one?”

At this point I really had to make a choice, should I actually go and follow these sounds, or should I just ignore them and leave them to their faith, because what the hell am I supposed to do? I don’t know anything about stuff like this because I never had the misfortune to find myself in such situations. I don’t know how to fight.

“Heeeeeeelp!!”

Then again…what kind of a person would I be if I let my fear cost the life of not one but two individuals? Screw it I have to do it, I might actually be the only person nearby than could actually help them. I have to forget about my fears for once and do what is right.

Hopefully without getting myself killed.

With that new found determination I quickly made my way over to the source of the sound crashing through bushes, dodging and jumping past trees and avoiding other obstacles.

“Oh I hope I know what I am doing.” I thought to myself in worry as I galloped as fast as my four legs could.

Chapter 3: First Confrontation

Author's Notes:

Here is another chapter guy's. You can thank my new editor Chrome Masquerade for this quick release.

Hopefully this continues with the other chapter i have already written and finished as well.

Anyway here is chapter 3, have fun and also have fun nitpicking and pointing out errors.

/Chapter 3: Confrontation/

Edited by: Chrome Masquerade

“Ahhh…stupid vine, almost tripped on it. I have no time to lose. I need to be quick if I want to be of any possible help.” I thought to myself as I continued to rapidly make my way over to the calls of distress. My body was covered in sweat as I could hear my heart pumping into my ears from this mad dash.

My muscles began to burn, but I didn’t care. For some reason I was just filled with dread and a feeling of urgency even though I had no idea what I would encounter once there.

My body was already covered in small cuts and bruises from strafing by small spikes and sharp branches as I ran. But just as with my untrained muscles I ignored the pain and simply continued on my mad dash.

“Please… anypony? Can anypony hear us? We need HELP!!!”

The sounds were getting louder and clearer as I rapidly came closer and closer to its source.

What eventually really started to worry me were the loud barks, growls, and sounds of claws scratching on wood, telling me right clearly that I was running directly into danger as well.

But again despite my fears I simply continued to press on, jumping over one a fallen tree trunk before I finally came within visual range of the source of the noise.

What I saw made my eyes go wide.

“Are… are those… wolves made of wood?” I whispered as I managed to keep myself momentarily hidden behind a large tree as I observed the scene in front of me.

Despite the deep darkness that dominated the rest of the forest, here everything was far brighter and clearer to see, thanks to the relative openness of this clearing and the large full moon above us.

Though that was not what dominated my attention. What did eventually made me do a double take was the fact that these… wooden Canines were slowly circling a large dead tree that was leaning dangerously over a cliff!

Though, it was what was on top of the tree which made my eyes go even wider.

On the tree's top branches, holding on for dear life where two Ponies, two Pegasus ponies to be precise. Heavily beaten and injured, trying their best to keep themselves away from the prying claws of these predators as they tried to climb up the tree.

“Flitter… I… I am so sorry that I got yourself into this mess…this is all my fault… me and my stupid antics and daredevilry… if only if I had listened to you more…”

“It’s… it’s ok Cloud… that’s… what I am here for… i'm… i'm your sister and as sisters we… we stick together. I made a promise to mom and dad to look after you… and I have been keeping that promise ever since… and I will continue doing so for the rest of our days… if this is… the day… where we both have to go down… at least we go down together… sis.”

“Flitter, I… I… SIS LOOK OUT!!!”

My heart almost stopped as I was forced to watch from behind my hiding spot as one of these monsters managed to climb close enough to scratch one of these ponies with its claws, leaving a large gash on her flank as she screamed in pure pain and fighting herself to not lose her grip.

It was then that under the combined weight of these two ponies and the monsters trying to climb it that the entire root system of the tree began to fail as it slowly ripped itself out from the ground and quickly toppled over, directly over the large drop behind it.

I just couldn’t watch, I just couldn’t do anything because I felt too afraid to even move from my position. I came here to help them but in the end all I simple did was watch in utter horror and fear letting these monsters toy around with them and eventually letting them fall to their death simply because I am too much of a coward to do anything.

I’m so pathetic…

“FLITTER!!”

“CLOUDCHASER!!”

Than my eyes suddenly open as something deep within my being suddenly awakened.

All of my fear suddenly drained away as a new fire began to ignite inside my heart, a fire I had never ever felt before in my life.
It felt… empowering, inspiring… encouraging. A feeling of power and will I have never felt before. It was… it was… unbelievable.

My wings suddenly opened for the first time, and without even feeling or thinking about it I began galloped out into the open. With anger, determination and courage burning within my eyes.

I kicked, punched and charged through every single one of these creatures who dared to stand in my way, sending them flying and crashing into the ground, trees, or rocks around us as they yelp and howl in pain from my action.

One by one they meet the ends of my horn or hoof as I soon came face to face with their leader.

He was large, really, really large in comparison to his other kin, with large scars covering its wood-like body to display his strength and power to all who dared to oppose him.

It let out an ear shattering roar as it charged at me, its eyes displaying a lust for blood as its massive size and strong legs dug deep into the ground as it ran towards me.

I simply continued my own charge, feeling rather unimpressed by my opponent’s size and viciousness.

Time seemed to slow down as we continued to charge at one another, neither one of us showing any sign of intimidation or backing down.

Even though my body was working practically on overdrive, my mind, though was surprisingly calm as I stared into the glowing red eyes of my opponent.

I simply let my instincts take over as I began to jump high into the air with my wings still fully extended, just barely missing this monster's massive jaws as it was about to strike me down, gliding over its massive head and using it as a boost to clear the rest of the monster’s body by kicking its skull with my hind legs forcing its head to hit the dirt below it as my wings, at that point, took over.

I easily cleared the rest of the way as time slowly began to resume its normal state as I dove over the cliff and immediately took chase after the two still falling Pegasi below.

The wind rushed past me at high speeds as I dived bombed my way to them. The cries and looks of fear in their eyes and voices were obvious as they flailed around desperately in the air in the hopes of a miracle.

A miracle that is diving faster towards them than they realized.

As soon as I reached them I began to grab them one by one with my forelegs, grabbing them around their waists and holding them close to and in front of me.

I immediately began to angle myself horizontally to keep them safe on top of me and wrapped my wings around them as well for extra protection as my back was facing the rapidly approaching ground below us.

I simply closed my eyes and held on tight as we continued to fall along the cliff walls.

A small but happy smile formed on my lips just few moments before my body hit the rock hard ground.

Before I know it, a loud crash and a shot of unimaginable pain rocked my entire body as the entire world went black.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Light was the only thing greeting my vision as soon as I opened my eyes.

The first obvious thought that went through my mind was “Am I dead?” but that got somewhat debunked when my vision slowly adjusted itself to the bright rays and all I was able to see was a clear cloudless blue sky and the bright shine of the sun above me.

I groaned as I slowly began to sit up and felt rather surprised how easy it was for me. For some reason I expected it to be a bit harder than that.

Another thing that really surprised me was how…familiar my body felt, nothing like the new pony body I have now.

I look down onto myself and was shocked to find out that I had my normal legs and feet again, same for my hands and arms as I moved them in front of me.

Thank god I have some pants and a shirt on as well otherwise it would have been a bit awkward, though I wonder where my shoes are.

“How…since when did I turn human again?”

“Well, since you came here, obviously.”

“What… who said that?” I thought to myself in surprise after I heard that.

I began to look around me, trying to find the owner of that voice but all I saw was a never ending expanse of clear blue skies and an endless field of clouds filling the horizon.

Oh yeah… did I already mention that was sitting on clouds? A never ending expanse of clouds going as far as I could possibly make out?

Huh…I guess I really must be dead than. This at least explains why I can sit on an otherwise non solid objects and find myself in a place looking like this.

“Nah, you're cool man. You’re not dead, don’t worry.” The same voice suddenly replied scaring the ever living crap out of me.

“How…how does it know what I was thinking?” I thought to myself again as I started to try and pinpoint the source of that voice again only to once again finding nothing but the same emptiness and stillness of clouds and blue clear sky.

“No dude, behind you. I am behind you.”

I immediately held still after the voice said that, and despite my better judgment and, simply out of curiosity, I did as the voice instructed me and turned my head and upper body around so that I could see what was behind me.

I couldn’t believe my eyes at what presented itself in front of me when I did.

“Hey there. I know it’s a bit awkward seeing yourself in front of you… Well, your other self, that is.”

Saying I was speechless was an understatement. I was stunned to see my own self standing there behind me with an awkward smile on its face, my pony face.

“Uhhhh…” Was all I got out as I continued to look completely dumbstruck.

“… Ok, I either must be dreaming… or I am really dead.”

“No, trust me you’re not dead, though you might be right with the whole dreaming thing.” My pony self-answered with a smile, making me raise an eyebrow in suspicion.

“Ok… then tell me… where am I and who the heck are you?”

My pony self snickered to himself after I asked that, shaking his head a bit before addressing me with his smile again.

“I am you. Duh. Well, you're more courageous side, to be precise. Also you are currently in your own subconscious, if that information helps you.”

I simply stared at him.

“Sub-conscious?? My sub-conscious is a representation of something that most peoples would imagine heaven would look like?” I asked while scratching my head.

He simply shrugged again.

“Again, I don’t know way it looks like this, but hey, you got to admit that it looks very pretty and peaceful. I kind of like it to be honest.” He answered with another smile.

I simply continued to scratch my head after that, before remembering something else he said earlier.

“Also, a more courageous side of me? Are you shitting me, I’m not very courageous at all since I prefer to stay away from danger. Also why would my more braver side be represented by a pony?” I asked him accusingly while crossing my arms, this time fully facing him.

I watch my other self think for a while before simply shrugging and looking back at me while rubbing the back of his head with one of his hooves.

“Beats me, to be honest. Also, prefer to stay away from danger? Then please do tell how you managed to perform that little stunt you did just a few moments ago, hmmm?” My pony self-answered with a smug smile at the end, which confused the heck out of me.

“What??!! What are you talking about?”
He simply chuckled.

“Don’t worry, you’re going to find out soon enough. You're about to wake up anyway.” He answered still keeping his smile.

“Wake up… but I don’t feel….”

“Oh yeah, I just forgot” He interrupted as he took his hat off and held it out in front of him.

I simply looked at him confused as he began to turn the hat upside down with his hooves.

“Remember that you can take your possessions from your world into your current one and back with this Trilby, basically like one of those magic hat thingies that those old-school magicians use. But you should already know that because it was your idea when you made me.” He explained to me with a smile as he demonstrated it by sticking his hoof into it and then suddenly pulling out my smartphone to show it to me.

I again simply stared at him dumbfounded before he quickly tossed my phone back into the hat and placed it back onto his head.

“Well, anyway It’s time to wake up.”

“No, wait! I still need to know…”

“Wake up.”

“WAKE UP!!!”

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“Hey sis… I think he’s waking up.”

“Really? Oh, thank the Celestia for that… with that impact he took earlier I thought he would never wake up.” I hear two voices say as consciousness slowly returned to me.

The very first thing I felt, though, was pain. Lots and lots of pain. Not as widespread as the first time, but this time more concentrated into one area.

My Back. My bloody back.

“Ohhhh ffffffffuck… why do I always… have to wake as if I just fell from a hundred story building or something.” I groaned as my eyes were slowly starting to open up.

“Uhm, actually… you fell down a very large cliff to be precise… with us. Th… thank you, by the way, for saving our lives like that… by almost… sacrificing yours.” one voice said awkwardly

“Yeah… thanks a lot mister. That was really epic of you. I mean, I haven’t seen or heard of anypony being able to survive such a fall -and impact- before… you really are a hero. For the two of us, at least.” I heard the other voice reply as I was still in the wake up process while ignoring the pain in my back.

“Wha… what? Who are you two? And also what are you two talking abo-”

I stopped before I could even finish my sentence as everything suddenly came back to me; the encounter, the monsters, the fall, everything.

My eyes immediately shot open as I attempted to quickly get up, but got stopped as a sudden spike of pain assaulted and I was forced back onto the ground with a heavy hiss escaping my teeth.

“No, no… be careful! Please don’t move so erratically. You’re still injured and you need to take it slowly.” I heard as a set of hooves gently pressed me back down onto the ground.

“Yeah. it’s actually quite a miracle that nothing else got injured as well. Aside from a few cuts and bruises on your back. Any other pony would have shattered their spines completely if they had been in your hooves.” I heard the other voice comment as I was still grinding my teeth from the pain.

I sighed after the pain slowly began to subside. I eventually felt calm enough to open my eyes again and the first sight that greeted me were nothing but a blurry, unrecognizable mess of figures and colors, making me rub my eyes and slightly groan in annoyance.

“Ugh… where are my glasses?”

“Your glasses? Oh you mean these. Just a sec.” I heard the first voice reply as I continue to massage my eyeballs.

“Here”

“Th… thanks, but… Could you maybe do it for me? It’s difficult to place them back onto my nose with… hooves. ” I asked, a tad sheepishly.

“Oh, ok.” She replied as I felt a pair of hooves gently placing my glasses back onto the bridge of my snout where they belong.

I sighed in relief as my vision was finally restored. I was about to thank the individual who gave back my glasses, until I realized who it was standing right in front of me.

“I know these two… I’ve seen these two characters before back home in both fan art and tumblr sites… background characters I would guess?” and I guess I was right with that thought seeing them right in front and personal. “It’s just too bad that I can’t remember what they were called. Jeez, what were their names again?” I thought to myself as I curiously watched the light violet colored fur and white colored, spiky maned mare in front of me.

Another mare suddenly came up from behind her looking almost the same in terms of coat color, only even lighter and with a long bluish-green mane with a pink bow on top.

Again, just couldn’t remember her name as I continued to curiously observe both of them.

Suddenly a thought struck me.

“Wait… do… do they know? I mean both a horn and wings should be easy to spot. Especially mine, as they seem to be bigger than your average Unicorn and Pegasus…CRAP!!” I thought to myself.

I began to internally panic as the realization hits home. I slowly began to back away from them nervously, minding my back.

The two of them showed looks of confusion and concern towards me as i continued to slowly crawl backwards and eventually hit a wall behind me.

It was only then when I realized that we were actually inside a cave with the only exit being right behind them. Man, what the heck is wrong with my perception lately, constantly never noticing such obvious stuff.

Also with them standing right in front of the only exit this meant that I was basically trapped as well. Shit!

“Oh, what… what’s wrong? Was it something i said?” The white haired one asked as her face showed genuine concern.

“No… just… just no. You two already know what I am don’t you?”

“Know? Know what? What are you talking about?” She replied with confusion as she began to look back at her sister for possible answers.

Only for her to realize something, staring directly at me with wide eyes, shock, surprise, and disbelief etched on her expression.

Shit… she knows… actually, wait a minute…

“Oh, sis what are you…?”

“Cl… Cloud Chaser. Take… take another look. Like a REALLY good look and tell me what you see.” The one wearing a pink bow answered.

The one with Spiky white hair did so as she, too, took another look at me. At first she continued to look confused, until a look of realization sprung up and she too was looking at me with shock and disbelief written on her face.

Wa… wait a minute… did I just sell myself out by acting strange and claiming that they know? Helping them essentially realize what I truly am?

FUUUUUUCK, what a bloody idiot I am. SHIT.

“Uh… oh, no it’s… it’s not what it looks like…I…I’m just an average…looking Pegasus to be honest. That horn you see on top of me…it’s just glued on… it's fake. I place it there to… pull a prank on someone…y es a prank hehe.” I desperately tried to lie while smiling sheepishly at the end.

Obviously though, they weren’t buying it as the white haired one slowly started to approach me. Curiosity replacing her previous shocked expression.

The moment she was in arm’s length she began to tap my horn roughly with the tip of her hoof making me feel really tense and really awkward at the same time.

“Hmmm. Looks and feels real to me.” She commented to herself.

I watched her tap my horn a few more times until the pony in back suddenly began to shout at her, making both of us flinch in surprise.

“Clou… Cloudchaser… what the BUCK ARE YOU DOING???!!!! STOP THAT! THIS PONY HERE MIGHT BE A PRINCE FOR ALL WE KNOW!!!” She shouted in panic.

That accusation immediately sent alarm bells through my mind as the last thing I wanted them to thing was that I was some kind of royalty or monarch.

“WHAT!! NO Nonononononono I am not a prince…far from it. I am just a normal everyday guy who tries to find his place in the world, that’s all, just like everyone else.” I quickly corrected in a panicked voice while looking at her.

“See? He said he is not royal so it’s cool.” The one dubbed Cloudchaser replied casually while smiling.

Wait… is she for REAL? Just a few moments ago she looked just as shocked and surprised as her sister and now all of the sudden she is totally cool with it?

Is she secretly retarded, or is she really just so incredibly chill with the idea that there is an unknown Alicorn just sitting right in front of her?

Maybe my worries from earlier were just fabrications of my imagination and it might actually be ok for these ponies to accept me for what I am, but then again the looks and reactions of her sister completely destroyed these ideas and made me even more determined to keep my true looks hidden from everyone and everything as best as I possibly could.

The last things I want to cause while being stuck here is either a mass panic or mass riot, two things I am very allergic to, so to speak.

I was quickly drawn back into reality as I began to hear both of than start to argue and bicker. Mostly revolving about me and my appearance and how irresponsible Cloudchaser was and how bossy her sister is.

At this point I really had to say something before things started to get out of hand -or hoof, as the case may be-. Mostly for my sake, since I know that I am far from being out of the woods yet -No pun intended,- because I can tell from looking past the cave exit that I am still in the Everfree, which I don’t like.

I nervously tried to get their attention back to me to perhaps defuse this situation…just a little bit, if not completely.

“Um… Excuse me?” I tried to call out from my position but as expected was meant with no response as they continued arguing.

I sighed. Only one last thing to do then.

“WOULD YOU TWO STOP BICKERING FOR ONE MINUTE??!!” I shouted, which thankfully did the trick.

They both flinched at my sudden… assertiveness as they both turned to look at me with surprised looks on their faces.

I cleared my throat.

“So… sorry for shouting but I desperately wanted to say something before things would go too far.” I started.

“For starters, even though I look…somewhat unique from the outside I can easily assure you that beyond that there is absolutely nothing special or different about me in comparison to everyone else. I am just an average dude who likes to lives his life normally and tried to avoid trouble and danger wherever he goes.”

“Heck, that’s another thing. I don’t even know to use my horn or wings. So there. You can stop your arguing because there is nothing to argue about.” I finished my explanation with a sight as I took my Trilby off to rub my head a bit.

An awkward silence dominated the small cave we were in as neither me nor the two mares in front of me dared to say anything else after my earlier sudden outburst.

I shook my head sadly and sighed, placing my Fedora back onto my noggin and attempted to stand up back on all fours. Only to be brutally reminded again of my back as I almost fell back down.

This, though, managed to spark a reaction from one of the two sisters as the one with the bow quickly rushed over me to support me with her body before I could fall.

“I already told you that you need to take it slowly, the injury on your back is still fresh, so please, lay back down before you make it even worse.” She pleaded with concern leaking from her voice.

I simply smiled weakly at her for her concern as I tried my best to ignore the pain.

“It's… quite alright. Really, trust me when I say I’ve had FAR worse pains than this.” I replied with a weak chuckle to try and ease her concern a bit.

Though my attempts to calm her down quickly vanished as I saw the still fresh looking four-claw gash on her flank that one of those monsters gave her as my own concern for her quickly rose.

“But, wait… what about you? You’re seriously injured as well.” I asked while pointing at her wound with one of my hooves.

She followed my gaze and sighted as she realized what I was pointing out too.

“Well… yeah, but out here I really can’t do anything about it other than making sure it stays clean.” She explained with a sad look as her ears drooped.

“But don’t worry, I can manage…I hope.” She added, looking at the ground.

I knew for a fact that this wound could easily get infected if not closed or treated soon, especially out here.

It was then when the memory of the dream about talking to my pony self within my subconscious mind suddenly re-emerged.

“What did he mention about my Hat again? Something about being able to pull out stuff from my world over to this world, like a magician's hat?” I thought to myself as I tried to reply my memory of that one particular experience of my dream.

Thinking back onto the time when I drew and designed my OC’s character I did gave him an ability that enabled him to pull out and store all of his personal possessions from his home over to him and vice versa giving him almost endless storage capacity wherever he went. Well, at least stuff that was able to fit through his hat as it didn’t work for anything else that was bigger, for obvious reasons.

Knowing this, I looked over to my support.

“Could you maybe give me a little bit more space? I… uh… need to try something out, if you don’t mind?” I asked while looking at the ground feeling a bit unsure.

The mare in front of me simply stared at me in confusion before simply nodding and carefully retreating herself from me while keeping a careful eye on me.

I took this opportunity of personal space to move my Fedora from my head and onto my hoof in an upside-down position giving me a full-on view of the inner part of my headdress.

At first glance it looked like how I imaged it would, empty and completely normal.

Even so, I could somehow feel that all of the normality that my Fedora enforced was nothing more than just a clever illusion to fool anyone who didn’t know otherwise.

I simply shrugged and began to place my bets as I carefully sat myself down onto my rump and slowly lowered my other hoof down into the interior of my Fedora.

I took a glance over to the bow wearing mare for just a second as my hoof mysteriously went deeper and deeper into my hut as I unknowingly began to feel something attach itself onto my hoof as I quickly looked back.

Surprise and shock dominated my mind after I saw how deep I managed to lower my hoof into my hut, with half of my foreleg completely disappearing from view I slowly began to retract my foreleg back out and was even more surprised to see that two full rolls of clean, unused bandages were suddenly visible resting on top of my hoof.

Both mares also looked rather shocked at this display as they both stared at my hat and then back at the bandages I just pulled out. Seemingly out of nowhere from their perspective, which isn’t really far fetched especially from my point of view and experience.

I simply shrugged to myself as I looked over to the bow wearing mare in front of me holding out the bandages in front of her.

At this point I decided to myself to just accept everything that is nonsensical and reality breaking from now on. I am, after all, stuck in a world where magic and mythical creatures exist, so trying to add my real world logic into this would lead nowhere besides a trip into a mental hospital. A place I am not planning on visiting anytime soon.

“Here you can use these to cover up your wound and not risk infection. Please take them.” I said as calmly as I possibly could.

She, of course looked confused as hell as her gaze switches to me, to the bandages and back to me in a real comical way. Eventually, though, she seemed to get a grip on herself again as she gazed back on me with a questionable look on her muzzle.

“Oh… ok? But… but how did you just…?”

“Nope, sorry. No more questions. Just simply roll with it and accept it as fact. Easy peasy.” I quickly interrupted her while crossing my forelegs.

“Oh. ok then. Thank you.” She simply replied, while still looking somewhat confused, and took the bandages by grabbing them with one of her wings that wasn’t bandaged up like the other one.

Huh, how did I miss that? Seriously, my perception is all over the place lately. Hopefully that fixes itself soon, otherwise I am going to have some serious problems later on.

“Well, uh… Cloud, could you, maybe, help me wrap this around my left flank? It’s a bit difficult doing it all alone.” She called out towards her sister.

Her sister simply nodded as she trotted over to her sibling to help her properly cover up her wound.

I took the time while these two were busy to think about my situation and my next course of action. My back obviously still stings from the…supposedly epic rescue event that I achieved. To be completely honest here my memory of that one particular event is somewhat hazy, to say the least. The only thing I could remember were emotions. Raw, uncontrolled emotions and feelings.

Weird, I know, but more worrying than weird. I mean what does this tell me? Will this happen more often? Will I be able to control it, or even better, prevent it from happening again? ‘Cause the idea of me doing things without me fully knowing it or controlling it is an idea that would make many feel worried.

Does this have to do with the fact that I am a wing spanning horn wielding pony?

Maybe…maybe not. Crap, this is so confusing, and just earlier I had decided to just go with the flow and accept things as they are and no longer question them.

One thing is for sure… if I am going to survive in a world such as this I am going to need people -or, uh, ponies- that I can trust.

But how can I find those who won’t either fear me, hate me, or just cell me out?

“Uh... hey there?”

I was pulled out of my reverie as a voice suddenly called out for me. I looked up and was greeted with the sheepish look of the bow wearing mare in front of me with her sister right next to her.

“Thanks for the bandages, and again thank you for saving us from falling to our deaths. Without you my sister and I would not be here at all. And… and I also want to apologies how both of us acted in front of you.” She announced as she and her sister gave me the most sincere smile I have ever seen.

I nodded, giving them a small smile of my own while rubbing the back of my head.

“It… it’s nothing, really. I just did what any other decent individual would have done.” I replied, looking at the ground sheepishly.

I was taken completely by surprise as two sets of forelegs began to wrap themselves around my body, encasing me in the warmth of both these mares’ bodies.

I blushed as I realized what was happening. Nonetheless, I accepted it, as it wasn’t really often that you get hugged by two warm and fuzzy ponies, Though, I have a feeling that this is going to become much more common in the future. Something I need to keep an eye out for if I want to make sure ponies don’t get suspicious regarding my wings.

They eventually broke off giving me back my personal space and sat themselves around me as I was still blushing a bit from the sudden body contact I had just received.

Both of them giggled at my reaction, which really didn’t help at all, but it was still nice to know that these two were starting to relax themselves and not panic, worry, or be surprised and shocked at me.

The one with the bow broke the silence. “Oh yeah, I just forgot, we never even introduced ourselves to you did we?”

“Well my name is Flitter.” She introduced herself before gesturing over to her sister.

“And this here is my sister Cloudchaser, but I guess you already know that simply because I have already called her by her name multiple times since you woke up.” She finished by scratching the back of her neck sheepishly.

Cloudchaser in turn smiled at me as she was about to ask me something.

“What can we call you by the way?” She asked as both Flitter and her smiled at me.

I was about to give her my name before I managed to stop myself as a thought entered me.

What name am I going to give them? Am I going to give them my real name or my pony name?

I guess giving my real name or my pony name to them wouldn’t really matter that much, but what about any other pony I am might come across in the near future? I know for a fact that human names are weird and almost alien for these ponies so giving them my real name would just unintentionally give me even more unwanted attention in the future than I might already get for just being around them.

So I guess using my real name would eventually end up to be more of a problem to me than I am prepared for.

My OC’s name it is.

“Nava, just call me Nava.” I finally replied with a smile.