Chapter 4 – Oh horsefeathers
You have watched the two little ponies for the whole time you have sat on the bench. But you're watching is brought to an end as you feel a jab in your side.
"Um...you're not some filly watcher are you?"
You quickly avert your gaze to the grey pony beside you as you straight up your posture, "What! No-no no...I um I just..."
Stony nods his head as he holds his hoof up to you, "I don't want to know."
"No Stony I was just thinking and they were in my sight."
Stony eyes widen as he listens.
You realize how that sounded and quickly try to change its tone, "No- I men--..."
Your voice is cut off by a tomboyish call in front of you.
You squint your eyes to the name or word you just heard, "Who is th...-"
You voice is cut off as a bolt cyan color flashes in front of you. You hold your eyes open wide completely shocked to the pony whose hooves and lips now embrace you. The confused moment doesn't last long as the cyan fur blob backs away from you in a high pitched rushed voice, "OH my gosh I-I’m so sorry I-Just didn't think you and with what happened and the..."
The ponies words start to mash together and you shake your head with a confused and happy smile to the stumbling cute looking rainbow maned Pegasus mare in front of you. You can't understand a word, the roses red cheeked mare is trying to spit out but you find her tripping over her tongue for some reason adorable...your smile increases as you look over the cyan mare...librarian has skills.
Your brought out of your confused dopey gaze as the mares magenta pink eyes focus on you as she puts her hooves back around you, "...I-we need to get you back! Everypony is worried sick!" The ponies rushed unsure high pitched tomboyish squalling is brought to an end as her eyes squint to your still dopey smile, "Where WERE You!"
You can't stop yourself from laughing as you look at the mares still bright rose red cheeks, "I have no idea what you're talking about."
The cyan rainbow maned Pegasus backs up from you for a moment as her eyes widen, "W-what?" Her confusion doesn't last long as she jabs you hard with her hoof, "Don't SAY that? How do you not know what I’m talking about?"
You pause now completely stuck dumbfounded, this mare is crazy one second she's all over me and now she’s yelling at me?!
The small colt-stallion that sits beside you finally gets up as he stands behind you, "Hello Mrs, Dash...I bet you wish you were not so ru...-"
His sarcastic voice is cut off by the mare as he moves her face over his, "What did you do you little half pint pony?!"
Stony lets out a little chuckle as he slides out from under the mares gaze and back to your side. He pats his hoof to your side as he talks, "Are little drunken friend has some kind of memory loss."
Rainbow stares between you two for a moment before she walks back to you with a lower voice, "You can't remember anything?"
You blink at her silently not knowing how to answer her, "Um...-"
Before you can speak her voice picks back up, "How can you not remember anything?!"
You again shudder as you start to feel a little weird, "I-I don't know..." You bring your hoof up to your head as you rub it.
Rainbow gasped as she looks over your hoof, "Oh, you look like a mess."
You let her words ring in your head as you look over your still dirt covered fur and hooves, your hurt leg still has a bruising and dirt caked patch of fur on it. You didn't really notice it when you first left Stony's house but now that you do you're surprised that ponies even gave you a friendly smile.
You feel Stony pushing you towards Rainbow as he talks, "Alright it looks like you two know each other...."
You move closer to the cyan Pegasus as the small stallion walks to Rainbow, "What Sto...-"
Stony taps his hoof on Rainbow as he ignores you, "It needs a shower and most likely it needs to eat, don't forget to walk it or it might forget." He gives a deep laugh to himself as he walks away, “Good luck betrunken, try to get that library open."
You watch as the colt-stallion walks away, you feel a little uneasy being left with some mare you just meet.
The mare puts her hoof on you as she talks in a low voice, "Ok let’s get you cleaned up and then I’ll take you to home." She looks you over with a forced smile but her eyes are still a little shifty.
You don't know what else to do so you follow the cyan mare as she leads on.
As you follow her down the road she continues to stare at you silently, you try to keep eye contact off of her as your uneasy feeling starts to set in.
You keep your head straight as you feel her gaze continues to burn onto you. After a little longer you can't hold yourself back as you make a quick turn to her, "What?"
She stops and you follow her lead, she again looks you over as she talks in her low tomboyish voice, "C-can you really not remember anything?"
You turn your head from her as you laugh a little to yourself, "No, a-are we like dating or something? Cause if we are I’m sorry."
She picks her pace back up as she veers off the main path, "No."
You keep your pace with her as you follow her, "Where are we going?"
The cyan mare doesn't turn around as she talks, "Well I was going to get you washed up but I can't fly."
Can't fly? You eyes drift to her bandaged wing that you could not see when you first meet her. For some reason you get a weird feeling that somehow you could had prevented it. The thought fuels your comment as you try to talk in a concerned voice even though you barely know this pony, "I'm sorry...-"
She turns around fast as your words hit her ears, "You remember?" Her pink magenta eyes are completely focused on you as she waits for your answer.
You sheepishly avert your eyes as you talk, "Um...no, how did you get hurt?"
She hangs her mouth open in aw for a moment before she talks in a shaky tomboyish voice, "Helping a friend."
You nod your head as you look around, "Um...where are we going?"
Rainbow takes a deep breath as she slowly shakes her head, "I'm taking you home." She looks back to you with intense eyes as her voice becomes more stern, "Listen I don't know what's wrong with you, but please when you meet Twilight just act happy ok?!"
You nod your head as you try to think over the name, the name rolls in your mind the feeling of forgetting something important now runs through your mind and starts to make your uneasy feeling become more of a stomach churning uneasiness.
"Ok, well come on it's not too far." The rainbow maned mare waits for you to start walking before she joins your side. You again hold your gaze from her as you focus on the road, Twilight? that name...
End of chapter 4