//------------------------------// // CH. 7 I told you it would hurt. // Story: Lost in Equestria without a map. // by M11-Megas //------------------------------// Lost in Equestria Without a map. By: M11-Megas Ch. 7 I told you it would hurt After locking the door with Carrot top on the outside I breathed a heavy sigh of relief, followed by the sudden need for coffee. But before I could think of what kind, my brain slapped me with a memory. My heart skipped a beat, and I cleared the stairs in two steps. When i got to the top I saw Rainbow lying in the same spot that I left her at. It can't be. It's not possible. I walked closer to her she still didn't move. I stooped right above her and watched. Is it? Is she really... *snore* Another sigh of relief before I fell to my butt on the floor and watched Rainbow Dash sleep. She looks so peaceful. If it weren't for the blood dripping from her forehead, you would never even know that she was in a fight less then five minuets ago. She curled her legs against herself and snored a little more. "D'aw." I decided that going into a nap due to a head injury may not be the healthiest kind of sleep, so thinking she may be suffering from a concussion I tried to wake her up. I tried being gentile "Rainbow, time to wake up." I said soothingly to her. It had no effect. I tried shaking her a little "wakey-wakey" *snore* I moved on to a talking voice "Rainbow, wake up." shaking her rocking her on the floor. She did nothing. I pinched her neck a talked in a louder voice but she simply just snored away. "Alright if you want to play it that way." I stood up and got the first aid kit from my backpack. Sitting back down near her head I said, "This is going to hurt." I wetted a cotton ball with some of the disinfectant alcohol then I wiped it over her cut on her forehead. "AUGH!" she shouted as she rolled to her hooves jumped in the air and crashed to the floor again. She was wide-awake now and frantically babbling "Ow! Where did Carrot Top go? Why does my head hurt so badly? Stop spinning! Aaah my head!" She was saying all of this at the speed of an auctioneer with his pants on fire, and running around the room like one too. "In order, I kicked her out. Carrot Top is apparently a champion stool thrower. You’re spinning not me. And I have some aspirin right here for you." I blurted out while she calmed down. After she was back to a relaxed state I explained what had happened while she was sleeping while looking in a medical book in the first-ad kit about head trauma induced sleep, but found nothing. "So why does my forehead burn so much?" I replied in a joking manner. "It's the alcohol compound that I use. It works but it burns to no end, I call it proof that some cures are worse than the ailment they fix." Rainbow giggled a little. I put a band-ad on her cut. Then she spoke in a serious voice. "Fluttershy told me about you. Don't get the wrong idea about ponies, there are some real jerks like Carrot Top, but most of us are cool. W-what she said... it it wasn't right." she had a quiver in her voice on the last sentence. She was hiding her emotions well but not to well. She seemed upset almost like she was the one being mocked. I tried to reassure her and change the subject at once. "I'm fine, don't worry. But I think that you should go see someone about your head injury. You may have a concussion." She seemed to perk up at that. "Please, did you forget who I am? I can just trot this off. Besides if I leave then who will fend off Carrot Top if she comes back?" I was skeptical "I'm not sure if that is a good idea." "Shouldn't you get that checked out by somepony?" She was pointing a hoof at my right shin. The bandage on it wrapped the whole way around my calf, the front of the bandage was covered in blood. I touched the bloody part with the tip of my finger, some blood stuck to my finger. "I should. But I don't have the option. As it is I don't have a cent to my name and I'm told I am not allowed at the hospital. Also I need to find Twilight Sparkle as she may have an idea of how to get me back to my world." as I said that the fact that I’m somewhere away from earth washed over me. It was a little depressing. "Well I ain't going anywhere." She seemed a little annoyed. I knew I wasn't going to convince her otherwise so I gave in. "Alright, I could use some company that isn’t yelling at me for no reason or tiring to destroy the library." I licked the blood off of my finger for no real reason. Rainbow shattered as she saw me do so. "Are you a carnivore?" I had to think for a moment as the question took me off guard. "Um... I think the correct word is omnivore." Rainbow took a step back, she nervously spoke. "And what do you eat?" she seemed to shake a little. I replied in a flat serious tone. "Rainbow I would never harm anything that I believe is sentient without first being attacked." I stained my collar. "I am a civil being not the cruel monster that that Carrot figure would have you believe that I am." She seemed calmed by the statement but looked me over one more time. Her gaze stopped at my right hip. I could figure out what she was looking at without breaking my sight of her. Crap. "My knife is a survival tool and nothing more. I'm normally out in the woods were it is important to have one." "Its not that. Your leg is bleeding." I looked down to see that part of my short's leg had turned a dark red. Not what I was thinking at all. I found the new cut and put a band-ad on it. "Do you really think that will stop the bleeding?" She asked with amusement in her voice. "No. But I might as well try to keep the place as clean as possible." I laughed but felt a heavy ball in my chest that left an unsettling feeling. Some time passed as Rainbow read some books and I kept the charades of being a librarian up. Just having Rainbow in the room seemed to put ponies at ease as things went a lot smoother. It was hard to enplane why the one room had a collapsed bookcase in it, as I didn't want to blame three fillies thinking that no pony would believe me. After another hour passed. I was reading a book about some religious thing of a princess god with the power to raise the sun. I really wasn't interested in it but this seemed to be widely accepted around here so I had to read it. "Hiya!" I nearly jumped out of my skin at the shock. But tried to keep my composure. I whirled around to see a pink pony that had somehow got around the desk without me noticing. "Hello." I voice was shaky and uneven. The pony talked at the speed of light. "I saw you in the street and I was like OH new pony in town but then I realized that you aren't a pony at all, like duh right, but anyway I saw you then everyone stated galloping about I thought it was like a new type of party at first but then-" My eyes drifted to Rainbow Dash who had fallen asleep some time ago. "-so then I got my hat to start finding clues to find you and-" I started to wonder if this pony needed to breath. It didn't seem like it. "-so now here I am and here is your invitation!" She handed... well hoofed me an envelope that was covered in stickers and bounced down the stairway. What had just happened? "I have no idea." answering myself.