Chapter 1 - where am i?

i woke up in a comfortable bed, i tried to move, but whenever i tried there was immense pain, so i just lay still, i tried to open my eyes and had to immediately close them again. the light directly overhead was blinding to my eyes. after awhile i was able to open my eyes long enough to tell where i was, i was in a hospital, white walls that reflected the light, the bed i was on looked like it was almost too small for me. i began to hear voices outside the door "so, will he be okay?" the voice seemed, kind and comforting, the next voice was even more so "yes, we believe that he'll be up and about in a few days" i groaned quietly, but managed to stand up and walk around a bit.

my legs felt stiff, like they hadn't been used in a while. i walked around a bit more until my legs felt loose, i began stretching my upper body, which felt even more stiff, I'd forgotten about my injury, but it barely hurt. i wondered about this for a while, trying to recollect what had happened for me to be hurt, but i couldn't remember. i began taking off the bandages that wrapped my chest and right shoulder, and i saw some bloodstains and a few rapidly-closing scratches, but other than that i as fine. i found my shirt, luckily no one had removed my pants, and put it on.

i stretched a bit more before going over to the door and knocking on it *knock knock knock* "t-that's not possible, he shouldn't be able to move with wounds like that for several more days" and something opened the door, it was a pony, white with a tattoo of a red cross on it's ass it's eyes were wide as it asked "how are you possibly moving around?" the voice was female, i couldn't really think as my brain processed talking ponies. "wha?" was what i managed to say before she began pushing me back into the room with her head saying "you shouldn't be pushing yourself, your still injured" "what are you talking about, I'm perfectly fine" i responded she was already taking off my shirt as i spoke.

she gasped when she saw my injures were completely gone "h-how" she murmured with her mouth open. i was able to push past her and walk along the hall, i had to duck to get through a few spots, but nothing too small, i walked out into the incredibly brightly colored town, the houses looked like they had straw roofs and brick or wood sides. i began wandering around the town, most ponies avoided me, but some ran, i guess it's because i was different than what they were used to seeing, it could also be that I'm wearing bloody clothes, but they ignored me for the most part. i came to a house that was either carved from a tree or had a really good designer who wanted it to look like a tree. i saw a sign with a picture of a candle hanging above the door.

i thought that it could be a shop or something, i knocked on the door and waited a moment before a purple pony with a horn coming from her head, no, a unicorn. she looked at me with huge eyes "you shouldn't be able to move for days, your wounds were severe" i recognized the voice as the other voice i heard outside the door of the hospital. "hi, I'm Derek, Derek Jest" " I-I'm Twilight Sparkle," she said recovering her composure ",what are you" "well, I'm a human" she looked at me for a moment, as though taking a mental note.  "and, why did you come to Equestria?" "i don't really remember what happened before i woke up in this world's hospital" as i said it a small memory came back to me, a dark forest, i was in excruciating pain and i saw a pony, with feathery white wings and a spiraling horn drinking from a lake "H-help me" i heard myself say, i felt myself being picked up as she walked over to me, i heard a beautiful voice say to me "i will take you to Equestria, you would not survive here, but there you may" and i felt a tugging in my gut and that was the last thing before waking up in the hospital.

i rubbed my head and said "i-i remember a little, a beautiful white pony with wings and a horn took me here, but that's all i remember" she looked at me, awestruck and asked "P-Princess Celestia brought you here?" i didn't know her name so i said "i don't know, maybe" she looked at me for a moment and yelled over her shoulder "SPIKE!" "coming Twilight" i heard another voice respond, deeper within her house. i heard footsteps and a small purple lizard came into view, "yes Twilight?" he said before he saw me "WHOAH, what're you?" the question was obviously directed at me, "I'm a human" i said "Spike, take a letter" she said, completely ignoring our small exchange spike brought out a quill and paper and looked at Twilight expectantly "Dear princess Celestia, a human named Derek Jest has come to Equestria, he claims that you yourself took him here and has just gotten out of the hospital, your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle" as spike wrote the last word Twilight said "send it" he rolled up the scroll and breathed green fire on it, it instantly turned to ashes and flew out the window.

a few moments later, spike belched and a new letter appeared. he opened it and read aloud "Dearest Twilight sparkle, yes i brought him here, i had crossed over into his dimension in order to ascertain what forms of life that world held, he stumbled out of the trees at the edge of the clearing i was in and asked for help, so i helped him, he was covered by injuries and shouldn't be up yet, please get him to go back to the hospital and rest some more." with the last portion spike looked at me with an evil gleam in his eye, i got the feeling he didn't like me much "well, you heard her, we need to get him back to the hospital" "but I'm not injured" i protested as twilight literally dragged me back to the hospital with her magic "the princess says you need to go back, so you're going back" i was beginning to get angry "let me go, now" i said, glaring at her "the princess said we should take you back" i was getting even angrier "let me go" i growled it this time she seemed to flinch and somehow, i slipped out of her magic, i'm not sure how, but i knew which way to go, i was completely silent and i'm not sure if she noticed that i left, her magic was holding nothing, but it was shaped like me i ran into some apple trees to get away from Twilight, when i heard a noise, like someone hitting wood with metal, but it sounded far-off and i left before i encountered what was making that sound.

when i escaped from twilight it had been about 8:00PM, the sun was going down and i was hiding in the forest, the moon came up. i welt a tingling all over my body as i saw the moon, i heard something snap as my kneed reversed "oh no" i said, but the voice wasn't mine, my face elongated, my body itched everywhere which i assumed was the fur growing my hands had this strange feeling, like they were moving through jell-o. my human mind receded to the back of my head as a new mind took over, the mind of a killing beast. it howled and began looking around with it's yellow eyes, it spotted the town and began silently moving towards it. nopony noticed it as it hid in alleys, looking for it's victim.

Author's Note

so, who should be the first victim? vote in the comments (none of the mane 6)