Chapter 2 - first encounter

I woke up in a cold sweat “it was just a dream” I mumbled to myself over and over. After a while I got up and began to walk through the forest again, specifically away from the ruins. It was about midday, by the position of the sun and I luckily didn’t run into any things like the wolf-things. After a while that felt like eternity to me I heard some city noises and I found the edge of the forest.

My jaw dropped again when I saw the city. There were horses of every color walking around and talking. I rubbed my eyes and opened them again “yep. I’m not dreaming”. The strange thing was that I could understand what they were saying. Multicolored horses that can speak English I thought am I still dreaming? Then I heard from behind me an incredibly loud “CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS AWAY!” I jumped about a foot.

I landed and hid behind a tree as three very small horses, wait there too big to be horses, maybe young ponies? I thought. Then one of them, a yellow one with a red mane and a pink bow in it, stopped and looked in my direction. Uh oh I thought as it started walking this way. I tried to climb the tree. Somewhat successfully, my lower half was still visible below the leaves. “Umm, hello?” it said I determined it was a female voice as it looked around.

Then one of the twigs I was using as a handhold broke and fell, she looked up, saw me and gasped, then the stick hit her on the head and she was knocked unconscious. I climbed down and first checked her breathing. She was alive, just unconscious; however she would wake up with a nasty bump on her head. I dragged her back to the path she was on before and placed the branch to look like it just fell out of a different tree. The other two came back to look for her “APPLEBLOOM?” they both shouted, so I figured that the yellow and red one was called Applebloom.

I determined that both the others were female. Then they found her lying in the path “applebloom?” a little orange one that has …wings, a Pegasus…, asked about then Applebloom came to “y…yeah” Applebloom responded groggily “what happened” “we don’t know” a little white one with a beautiful voice answered before I realized it had a horn coming out of it’s forehead, a unicorn. A pony, a Pegasus, and a unicorn, all brightly colored, all speaking in English were having a conversation about something called cutie marks “how about we try bungee jumping next?” the Pegasus asked “Scootaloo, we already tried that last week.” The little white one answered the Pegasus who was apparently called Scootaloo.

“I know!” Applebloom yelled while jumping around “water skiing” “YEAH!” the other two called in harmony and they all ran off. Applebloom hesitated for a moment and looked back at the tree that I had climbed, she scratched her mane and ran off, trying to remember what had happened. Then she gasped and ran away fuck, she remembered, I was hoping to go undetected for a few more days I thought well, I’d better run I climbed down again, and I hid in a nearby tree, I could just barely see the base of he tree I was just in. a few minutes later I heard a strange noise, like a zapping sound combined with a kind of poof.

I saw a purple unicorn walk into the forest and look up at the tree, I noticed it had a tattoo of a star on it’s flank at least I think it’s called a flank I thought she looked up at the tree and called “hello, is anypony up there?” I remained silent she circled the tree for a moment. Then her horn began to glow, I almost fell out of my tree, the branch that I had moved levitated over to her and moved up to reattach to the tree “somepony was here, but not anymore apparently” she began to walk off, a leaf chose that exact moment to fall across my nose “ACHOO” she jumped and looked around surprised.

I remained as silent as I could, still not wanting to be found she looked in all directions and stopped while looking in my direction. “Umm, hello, I know your there” she was looking in my general direction. She began walking in my direction. I tried to move higher up the tree quietly, when I found I was completely stuck. Great I thought I’m stuck  she was looking up every tree and getting closer to me fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck I thought, still unable to move. Then she looked up the tree I was in and jumped back about three feet, her mouth hanging open.

“Umm, hi” I said, that was the wrong thing to do, she just stared at me with her mouth hanging open. “Umm, I’m kinda stuck” she blinked for a moment and closed her mouth “what are you?” she asked I sighed, seeing no other choice “I’m a human”  “how do you know equestrian?” I was somewhat taken aback at this “I’m speaking English” “why are you here?” she sounded like she was reading off a list “I don’t know,” I answered “can you please get me down” “where do you come from? And I’ll get you down after this question” I sighed “California, now get me down” I felt something tugging the back of my shirt and pulling me out of the tangle of branches I was stuck in. she looked like she was straining as she pulled me out with some kind of telekinesis.

A few moments later she accidentally dropped me on my head “ow” “umm, sorry” she said. Then she looked at the round near my head “what’s that?” I noticed my mother’s cross had fallen out of my shirt, “it’s my mother’s cross, my only memory of her” for some reason I thought back to what she said to me everyday before she died “if I die and you need a home, wander through the forest at night, if you are accepted, you will find a friend” I snapped back to reality when she asked a question to me “what, sorry, I was lost in memory” she sighed for a moment and repeated “what’s your name” “Jacob, Jacob Circe” “why did you come here” “I already said, I don’t know” she facehoofed “I can tell that your lying” dammit I sighed “I ran away from home” my answer apparently surprised her “why would you run away from home?” she was apparently baffled as to why I would do such a thing.

“Because it wasn’t really my home anymore, my parents died and my foster parents were evil to me” “why were they evil to you?” I thought about that one for a moment “because I was different” I thought back to when they first took me in “what’s this boy?!”  Hilda’s horrible, gritty voice made me wince, “what’s this thing on your forehead boy?!” “I don’t know” I replied in a small voice “go to your room until you’re ready to tell me” “yes Hilda” and I went up to my room.

I NEVER took my shirt off in front of them, if they were that annoyed by a bump on my head they’d murder me about the ones on my back “HELLO” her voice brought me back to the present “sorry what?” she facehoofed again “how were you different?” I hesitated for a moment “I can’t tell you” I was saved from her reply by a really loud “UH OH!” right behind me and a noise of something falling VERY QUICKLY, getting closer very fast. I turned around and saw a cyan streak with a rainbow coming off of it coming straight toward us.