You wake up with your face in the dirt, not sure exactly what happened last night but you certainly remember coming home that time. Shaking the sleep from your head, you look up to see you're not even at your house, you're entirely outside, in the middle of a clearing surrounded by trees.
"What the fuck is this shit?"
IT seems odd how you remember being driven home, walking to your room and going to sleep, but how you woke up in the middle of nowhere just seems like a bad prank.
"Okay...well...I wonder who i owe money to."
"You owe nothing of the sort."
You turn to see a figure sitting on a rock just at the edge of the wood beyond you, she, or at least by the sound of her voice being a she, was a beast nearly the same size as you, reptilian, with black scales across her body with crimson red ones down her center from lower jaw to hEr inner thighs and tail; a dragon but no wings; the small frame certainly didn't spell "Big scary monster".
Something oddly...familiar about her.
"I'd say V'elcome comrade, but like you, I do not know how I got here either."
You blink a few times, either you're totally off your rocker, but you seem to be looking directly at a child's representation of an anthro dragon...a nice looking one at that. She stood around 5 feet, a long tail that went at least 3 feet from her body, curved ram-like horns on both sides of her head.
You don't speak, your mind is quite blown. She looks at you, those crimsons eyes flashing brightly in the midday light as she seems to study you with an inquisitive, almost curious look; nothing that says shes going to kill you
safe?
Your brain snaps to attention "Start talking moron, maybe she won't bother with you, and having been the first thing to speak-"
"Uhh, what is your name m'lady?" you ask, taking the most gentlemanly of tones
The drakess smirks, somewhat flattered but more in good humor as a tom-boyish chuckle escaped her maw
"My name? Comrade Anon, have you not bore witness to me many times before."
You blink, rubbing your head "Perhaps, but my mind is telling me not to." 'Or just not understanding it' you think, shits getting too real.
The drakess looks at you, expecting an answer, you look back with no real idea what she's going on about.
She huffs at you, slowly growing impatient. You blink in disbelief, perhaps utter mind-farttery
"Well?"
"Well what?"
"Do you know who I am"
"The fuck should I know?"
"The beast you at least create, perhaps the beings that are the closest to you."
"and what does that mean?"
The drakess sighed, you can see a pang of annoyance in her expression
"Do you trully not remember who I am, or does Anon's brain choose not to bother."
"What do you mean choose not to bother, the fuck can you say when you wake up in a world not like your own and see a creature you believe, hell, you damn well know for a muddafuckking FACT is something straight out of your head?"
"You say hello."
You pause, exhaling before you swat your face.
"Alright, alright, Hello, my name is Anon, what is your name."
"Charmed Anon, my name is Cermina, Matriact of the Arubrun Talon.
"Uh huh"
Oh
Fucking
Shit.
Perhaps you are off your rocker, but going through the many files and folders in your brain, it sparks a whole query of pictures, stories, draft works of this character; her very creation a fabric of your own imagination years ago...now...she stood here in physical form.
Cool.
You can't help but grin, she grins in return, that grin, that wicked toothy grin.
"A drake is fine for what I am comrade, but my talons are means to eradicate all those who must be ended, tis the way of my dealing, of my doing, of my purpose.
"To kill things?"
"To slay those who dare cause harm to my kin, comrades, and country..."
"Very patrotic"
She nodded "I am trained in combat comrade Anon, as soldiers are trained for their country. Being here by powers unknown and seeing you as my comrade, I shall be please to work alongside you in keeping you alive." Touching...at least for the most part of it, considering you're still unsure where you are, having some personal 'muscle' never hurt.
"Well, I don't think dying here would be the biggest issue on my mind, so what else?"
"The fact we should probably move from this area."
Yep, its her all right, can't really deny the characters actions nor how she looks; fuck, who or what ever got you here decided to rape your brain and take something out of it.
You ease your hands to your sides, dusting yourself off as you look at Cermina.
"So, why are you here, are you...real, is this real?"
The drake shrugged, raising both talons "dis is as real as you can get..." she tapped the rock, clunking her talon's knuckle along stone. "As for you and I, well, dat is questioning what this world has provided for us."
You blink, rubbing your stubble chin, you hadn't shaved for the past few days, guess doing nothing with your life finally drove you to go insane, but why here, what got you here, and why the hell did they create something that you developed through your own dabbling into the world of art and writing?
"So...you're telling me that I am here, and when I got here it created you."
"Dah"
"So then tell me, what IS here that we need to be concerned about?"
Cermina shook her head, raising shoulders to shrug as the answer clearly wasn't in her mind, let alone yours.
"I do not know, I have not yet scouted this area as properly as I should...tell me, do you wish for me to do dat comrade?"
The head pain you still have bothers you, sitting down, you wave a hand at her.
"Fine, go and do a perimeter patrol, at least until you get to the edge of the wood, then report back."
The drakess smirked, saluting a bit and then turning into the woods as you heard her footfalls stepping upon the soft grass, a broken stick, and then suddenly silence.
She was certainly all you expected her to be, no one else could be that sneaky and get away without a trace.
You lean back, gazing up at the semi-clouded sky above you, resting your arms behind your head as you compile your thoughts. The Drakess, Cermina, was something you made as a kid, a fantasy creature you grew up with, she was your "strong back"character, someone you could have to feel protected by, though not as impressive as your mind had made her. Perhaps its almost sickly have you sudden realize that something you fantasied as a kid has now been created in this world, oddly enough, you can't see any problem with it. Science fiction says this shit can happen, guides for those in new worlds.
"Maybe its a defense in my brain?"
You speak aloud, no one to hear you, words bounce about. A sigh as you feel all alone again, no one to talk to, no one to listen to.
You sit up, deciding it be better to figure a few things out before nodding off to sleep, you begin to check yourself out now, trying to see what you got. Your clothing is still on from yesterday, black shoes, jeans, a t-shirt and short sleeve button down, your glasses, and a bucket hat on your head. You check your pockets next, you have your phone and...clink...wallet with some change. Don't know how far that will get you here....better to have some form of ID if not anything else.
You hear rustling in the brush to see Cermina return, she came close, taking a kneel before you with a satisfied grin; she had done her job.
"Dere is a village 2 clicks from the woods clearing, occupied, dere was movement within. I have not investigated further, but wait for your word."
You stand up, stretching a bit as you look in the direction she pointed, wondering what sort of things you'd see. Would they be friendly? Hostile? Or just plain crazy? You didn't have much choice in the matter, and it would be a better chance of pace than sitting out in the middle of nowhere.
"Show me."
Cermina takes you through the bush, its thicker than you thought considering it looked like a normal forest from the outside, not some creepy jungle swap from the inside. You crawl about through the wilderness, it was peaceful, better than most woods you've been too around your place, and certainly a lot calmer than the busy city.
> Its sweet in the air, no pollution at all, which is nice.
"dis place is quite...cheerful." Cermina begins
"I'd figure, everything just looks brighter."
"Bah, too bright comrade, no stain of struggle or threat, it is utterly peaceful."
"You can say that again, I don't think this place can fathom war, it just...doesn't look like the kind of world that-."
She stops you suddenly
"Shhhh"
"What" you ask, getting your footing as you look at her, crimson eyes of hers fixate ahead at something she seen.
"Contacts...two of them....get down."
Cermina pushed her talon downward, you have enough knowledge of military maneuvers from TV and games to know she wants your body on the deck, you don't hesitate, letting your hat slump over your eyes a bit before easing it up to see. Its quiet for a few moments, nothing but the occasional chirp of a bird, but then, you can suddenly here the trotting of what sounds like...hooves...through grass and a few mutters of voices but nothing you can pick up clearly.
Cermina laid down just beside you as her upper body was arched upwards just enough to see clearly as she tracked the two for a moment before they left. You of course couldn't see shit with your head all the way down. as the voices and noise slowly fades and silence recovers.
"Its clear..." Cermina muttered after a few minutes of watching "come, let us move before they double back."
You're impressed, especially considering her perseveirance to combat methods. She certainly had her survival instincts settled, you could care less as you slowly get to your feet and follow her further inwards, or outwards as you can see the crest of the other side of the woods. As you reach the egde, the wood clears, and not too far fdrom you there seems to be a village, you can already hear the commotion from it and the smells.
Oh those smells... sweet.
"Dere." Cermina points towards a small town just over a few short hills, eyes go wide as your mind clicks to where the heck you are.
"Don't tell me."
"What, is dat bad?"
"No, but I have a very odd feeling that this is going to turn into the craziest thing of my life."
You rub the bridge of your nose a bit as Cermina moves forward "come, we can get a better spot from dere." she notes the wood extending to your right, around the crest of a small stream that borders the village. You can make your way around it to get a bit closer and have the lake as a boundary to prevent anyone from coming right at you.
Cermina goes first, keeping low as you do the same, monkey see, monkey do, you don't plan to suddenly show in there like anyone else might. The fact you were now being led by what could simply be considered a figment of your imagination was just too much fun to deny.
You arrive at the second point Cermina had mentioned, closer now, you can make out better details of the town and then some.
Brightly coloured ponies EVERYWHERE, not just horse-ponies, Pegasus and Unicorns are among them.
Instantly you face-palm.
"Dey are equines."
"Yes...and I know exactly to what."
"So, you familiar?"
"More than I'd like to be, this just takes the cake...Dear diary, today I found myself in a land of ponies."
"Dat does not sound bad."
"Not really, it does when you think this whole thing will be a great big ball of what the fuck."
Cermina huffed "Its better den being in a place of fear and pain."
"True argument there..."
Sighing you sit back and fiddle your hands into your pocket, pulling your phone and wallet out with you. Your phone is fully charged, always plug it in before bed and your wallet has plastic, some bills and cash. You count it.
"Ten and change..."
Cermina turns to you, grinning.
"I will go investigate." she smirked, easing forward
"Are you nuts!" You shout, grabbing her tail as she turns to you, eyes alight with a soft hiss of discomfort. "You're going to stand out like a sore thumb."
Cermina growls a bit
"You do not trust my skill?"
You pause, releasing her tail slowly."
"It's not that, its just...you will look really out of place."
"Dat is, if dey can see me."
You blink, sighing.
She is intent, so you let her go.
Cermina set off quickly, sprinting to the lake and leaping, yes, leaping right over the small brook to somersault into the opposing side, landing on her gut and crawling to the edge of the shore.
She looks for a few moments before pulling herself up and sprinting towards one of the closer houses.
Runs to one of the houses and presses her back tightly against the wall away from the interior of the town, directly facing you as you. She gives you a talon-thumb up, you mouth "you are nuts" in return.
She only grins wider, and turns to the house she laid against, easing herself onto a well place crate to get onto the roof, crawling up to the top of it and gazing over, having only her head poking out to see towards the town square.
You curse yourself that you can't move like that, but its best not to bother, you aren't as fit as she is, nor as well trained, best you sit tight as she scouts ahead.
She's watching everything in the town, why has no one noticed her?
The stillness is suddenly destroyed by loud trumpets blaring and then the wind changes.
Cermina lays on the roof as still as stone you notice a golden chariot pulled by two well armored Pegasus landing in the center of town, just a bit always from Cermina's perch.
Oddly enough, you can see it fairly clearly as a large white equine steps off it, greeted by bows of all the others focusing directly onto her.
"Clearly she's in charge..." You think as you can see has wings and a horn.
"Hrmmm, i think those are called Alicorns..."
You can see Cermina staring directly at the white one, yet she doesn't seem to be phased by it, perhaps she is unable to detected Cermina, but you can't help worry that she may be seen.
Even though she is on a roof she is still, you know, a dragon, smell and all.
The ponies begin to talk, among them you can see six of them speaking directly to the princess; two unicorns, one white with a purple mane and tail, the other purple with a matching mane aside from a light pink stripe both in mane and tail. behind them were two Pegasus, a light blue one with a rainbow mane and tail, and a yellow one with a long pink mane and tail. Finally, there we're two normal ponies; one bright orange with blond hair and white freckles, the other a Technicolor pink with almost cotton-candy like pink mane and tail.
They all seem quite chipper as they speak to the royal subject.
You watch them speak, laugh, even dance a bit in delight before the princess eases back onto her chariot and off towards a mountain in the distance before the ponies all disperse among the town.
Sometime later, you see Cermina making her way back to you.
"Did you see?" she asked as she returned to a kneeling position by your side.
"Yes...what were they talking about?"
You ask, Cermina sighs
"I could not understand much, but the Royal one had spoken of an unusual feeling about this day, and she asked them if the other ponies had known anything. No one seem too figure what she meant, made little sense, but I think she may have senses our presence.
"You mean mine, if she had sensed yours I'm sure she'd be on you like a cat on a rat."
Cermina smirked
"Cornered rats fight back, I would have taken her."
You roll your eyes a bit
"I do not like her."
You pause, looking at your drake friend
"Why not?"
"She feels...wrong.:
"In what way?"
Cermina turns to you, claws extended
"She is a good kin, her heart is warm and bright, but, her mind, her mind is one I can sense too well; I felt it all over the place, wandering around, seeking things out, it was...chilling."
"Are you saying while she was standing all there that she was seeing things through her mind?"
"I Cannot be sure, but she presents power unlike the others around this town."
"Powers?"
"Perhaps something beyond what you would consider magic or intelligence, something melding the fact she can expose peoples thoughts."
You sit back, if this royalty member did have a way to send her mind out to see things, then could be considered descendent of a god? You've read sci-fi to know that only really powerful creatures can do that "All seeing" sorta thing, perhaps that's what Cermina is talking about.
You tip your hat down a bit
"Sounds suspicious, but noted."
"We should wait till nightfall before we check out the rest of that place."
You nod "would be better to survey at night then to worry about being seen."
You decide to wait till the night, for now, you're still sleepy, so you lay back down and let your hat cover your face to catch some winks.
You wake up sometime later, eyes focusing to see Cermina crouched at the edge of the forest, the night sky hanging high above as stars twinkled and a full moon bright with its illuminate glow.
Cermina turned her head, seeing you awake.
She rose, easing over to you and patting your shoulder."
"Wake up comrade, are you well?"
You're groggy, you shake your head a bit to get the sleep from your eyes.
"Whats happened?"
Cermina points to the village
"Dey all went to sleep, we can move without problem."
"Did you check other spots?"
The drakess nodded "Dah, dere are several buildings of interest, perhaps we can find information in them."
"We need a library, sure there is one."
"Library?"
"If we want to learn about these guys, we look at their books."
Cermina hurred
"Right, lets move."
Cermina went forward first, taking the lead as she kept crouched, rushing the small brook and jumping over it.
She turns, waiting for you.
You aren't superman, but you take a few moments to gather your breath and run for the brook.
Its not a large stream, but jumping over, somersaulting and landing on your gut at the bank edge beside the drake makes you feel quite please with yourself.
She had done it before
Cermina just looks at you.
"Show off."
"Let me have fun."
Cermina rolled her eyes, easing slightly forward on her chest, just over the bank, hissing softly as the air escaped and a fork tounge lashed out.
"Hrmmmmthe innocent sleep, dis is a very good smell." she muttered, sensing the heat about of the ponies all slender in bed, their body temperature radiating in soothing comfort.
"I don't care if its lollipops and sugar drops, its far to late to be outside."
Ohshit.
You are Pinkie Pie
You wake up to find your whole body twitching, your tail is perking about, ears flapping against your face, even your nose inches
You get out of bed in a flash, feeling your whole body tingle and twitch.
You look up, down, around, all over your room to see nothing out of the ordinary.
You look outside
Nighttime
Sleep time, like you should be
Twitch twitch.
Can't sleep, too much twitching, something is here.
Out there
Outside
You know its late, you know no one wants a party this late
not like last time]
A party at midnight sounded so fun!
No one liked it very much.
Everyone kept falling asleep
But something is out there
Something is making your pinkie senses go haywire.
You ease softly out the door.
Don't wake Mr and Miss Cake
Sneaky sneaky through the hallway
Sneaky sneak down the stairs
Sneaky sneaky past the kitchen
Sneaky sneaky out the door.
Its cool outside
You close the door behind you and look around
Silence
Stillness
Then the twitching.
Ears begin to flap forward, almost in a direction as your pinkie sense drives you forward
You begin trotting towards the bride into town
Trotting quietly along the cobblestone path
Over to the bridge
And then you see him.
You are Anon
"HI I'm Pinkie Pie, whats your name? You're new to Ponville aren't you? I know your new because I know everpony here and I mean everypony, even those who aren't ponies! Why are you out and about so late?"
You tumble back, feeling your whole body clench right to the very earth you were resting on, exposing the whole front to the cotton candy maned, pink colored horse.
"OH geeezes shit." you whisper, keeping your stale eyes upon the creature. Fuck, its near midnight in your body, its insane to actually be UP this late. Thank the graveyard shift for that one.
"You need a whip? We have tons of whip, whipped cream, whipped chocolate, whipped caramel, whipped apple."
"Apple"
"Uh huh!" Her eyes are big and gleaming "Whip apple is so amazing!"
You swear you can see starts and fireworks exploding in her eyes as your trace fixated on them for a few more minutes as you blink
"Uhh...well, thats...good, I guess."
"You guess, you guess? Whipped apple is so amazing, you gotta try it cause its the sweetest thing and-"
"You should move, this is not what were here for." Cermina's voice pierced the very topic Pinky had been mono toning on to realize her eyes were closed, perhaps by instinct he just moved, up to the side of the house and onto the roof; he crawled to the far side then slid down the opposite,eventually landing right back down...in front of the pink one.
"Do you liked Whipped apple?"
"uhhh n-no...not really."
"Why not?! Its so amazing~!"
'Well, I guess, you see...'
>Smooth
'I never really had the concept of whipped apple come to mind, and frankly, i just can't understand how the formation of whipped apple could be conceived without something of the utmost whipping power.'
"Well, we certainly have something that could do it good! Come on, you should try it!"
"Uhh no."
"Why not"
"Just...no..."
"Why not?"
"Just...no..."
"Why not?"
Back against the wall, eyes fixated completely on the pink ponies blue eyes, the pupils extremely big in comparison to the white stuff...
"Because I don't like whipped apple."
"But why?"
"Its...to...hard."
"Hard, as in crumble hard, or crunch hard."
"Uhhh, more like firm press."
"So, not soft."
"No, Not Strawberry Banana soft."
"Oh, you like Strawberry Banana? I LOVE strawberry Banana!"
"You do?"
"Hrmmm!"
She flips about, landing some distance away from you, on her hind legs with her fore ones gripping her cheeks in delight, exposing those rather...large white teeth.
"This is so crazy."
Cermina laid by your side, expressing rather taint disbelief in the fact he was now talking with something exposed, he's not being tactical.
"Hey.."
You pause
"So, your name is Pinkie Pie?"
She nods
"Pinkamina Diann Pie, but everpony calls me Pinkie, cause imso pink! Whats your name?"
You blink a few times
This feels really childish, but you can't help but feel upbeat about this little pony.
"Well...Pinkie, I'm Anonimuspole, but you can call me Anon."
"Anonimsupole sounds funny, but Anon works!
She jumps around you in delight.
"HEY! That makes you a new friend, we should throw a party to welcome you to Ponyville."
"Uhh I think its a bit too late for that, shouldn't you be alseep."
"Oh but I was asleep, but you see, I suddenly got all, pinkie keen, my tail went twitchy twit, my ears went flappy flapp, and even my nose crinkled, I was totally surprised to feel a sudden desire for me to go outside and see what was up, and I found you."
You chuckle a bit, not too surprised by her comfortable reaction, you smile a bit
"Pinkie, might I ask you something"
"Oh, that may have to wait, sugar cube corner is closed, no strawberry banana is out yet."
"Uhhh not really, but I'd like to use the library"
"The Library? At this hour? Oh but Twilight is asleep."
"Who?"
"MY good super awesome friend Twilight! she lives in the library!
Lives
in
the
Library
"What, she's a bookworm?"
"Yuh huh..."
"Oh..well, I'd ask if we could at least try to do it all...sneaky like/"
"Why would we want to sneak?|
"Cause I don't want anyone to be awake.
"But, no one is here."
"I mean the..."
can't say people...
"Ponies, you know, everyother pony, i don't want to wake them."
"Well, I don't know about sneaking into the Library, but it certainly sounds fun! Lets do it!"
"What?"
"Sure, I mean, I don't mind sneaking around at all! its what i do best!" she went to a low whisper,finding yourself suddenly right at the ground level with her maw.
"uhhh, right...well can you show me?"
"Of course, follow me!"
Cermina just shook her head.
-
The Library was not too far from the center of town, a few walks away from the riverbank and they were infront of the giant IOakwood tree that was the Library.
Cermina stood by the entry sigh, hiding partially behind the cover erected as she monitored the back way. Pinkie of course simply led Anon to the door.
"Is there a back door"
"Nope, just a trunk!" she smiled wide, why was she not tired?
"Good one"
you rest against the wooden frame of the door, slipping a hand down into your pocket for your wallet, easing out a credit card, you gently begin to slide it along the lock frame, you ease it from the top down
eventually hitting the strike.
no lock.
"Thats messed..."
You open the door slowly, not a sound reverberates from its hinges as you look at Pinkie, she smiles
"She never locks it, why would anypony lock the door to a library, I mean duhhh, its not that nutty you can't take a book to read.
"Yeah, I would imagine."
You hold the door, motioning towards Pinkie,
she just stands there
you nod your head to the door, not in agreement, but trying to signal her/
she just sits there
"pinkie"
"Yuh?"
"I;'m holding the door, you can go inside."
"Oh, that's silly, why would you hold the door for me?"
"Cause...as a gentleman, I would ask if the lady enter first?"
Pinkies eyes lit up a bit
"Oh, you don't have to be so nice, that's for Rarity!"
You blink
"Rarity?"
"Yuh huh! you're a smooth talker, you should talk to her."
"maybe..."
Pinkie goes inside first before you follow suit
Tactical,
She goes in, everything's cool, no one questions the 5 foot tall bipedal creature entering a library should someone actually BE up.
You quickly follow behind her, entering the dark lobby of the library, book shelves surround you aside from one cut away to expose a staircase upwards.
You see Cermina standing by one of the shelves, pointing to a book that was amidst a trio of golden rimmed books. They looked like encyclopedias, a perfect choice to study some new things.
The one she was pointing to was I-P in the three book series.
You take it, easing it gently into your hands as you pulled it tight up to your chest and walk to the table.
Where an owl looks right back at you.
"....whao..."
Owls are cool, you're not unfamiliar with them, but this one was just...nuts. It was sitting perfectly still on a bird cradle just at the back end of it, its black eyes perfectly solid, almost endless as it glowed very dimly in the light, reflecting the smallest traces.
You can see Cermina growing tense a bit seeing it
You sigh a bit, thinking straight as you open the book to P
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You close the book slowly, gazing outside you can see that the night has slowly gotten brighter, day would be soon as you exhale softly. Though the owl remained vigilant, Pinky had oddly enough, fallen asleep by the book side. You weren't much for parties, but her company was enough to make you feel good about it.
"Well,thank you kindly Pinkie" you say softly as you see her quite off in dreamworld with her eyes shut tight. You wonder if she would awaken soon, perhaps that "keen" she mentioned was keeping her awake.
"Hopefully this will just be a dream to you...at least, unless you think it should be known."
Cermina walked over, patting you on the shoulder
"As hard as it is comrade, tactics dictates we keep low profile, if you wish to care for dese kin, den you must try and get use to dem before you begin to engage dem."
She was right, Pinky was easy, but how odd would it be to be human and simply be in this world of beasts, it wouldn't be easy for them to cope, even if Pinkie was so cool to the whole thing, the others certainly weren't this open. Closing the book quietly, you put it back in proper place before slowly looking at the owl, a smirk across your face as you run a hand along your lips, zipping them shut. The owl seems to twist its head a bit, perhaps understanding the message before you slip out and close the door behind you.