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// Chapter Five 
// Story: A Journey Unthought Of 
// by Hustlin Tom 
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A few days past.  Lyra had been initially surprised about how fast Bon Bon had changed toward me, but we, the three of us, had become close-knit friends very quickly.  It was hard adjusting to a life without eating meat: you don’t really miss something until it’s gone I suppose!  Lyra and Bon Bon had decided that in order to keep the towns-ponies (it’s so hard to adjust to the vernacular here!) from running panicking from me, we would slowly let ponies in on the secret of two of their own housing an alien from another dimension.  Since Fluttershy had already seen me, she already knew half of the truth, although she now thought Lyra was really into exotic animals.  As it happened, she did stop by to see how the poor animal (me) was doing.  After profusely apologizing for her door locks being broken, Lyra let her in to check up on me.  I was feeling a little mischievous that day, but at the beginning I let Fluttershy believe I was a dumb animal.  

“Did you ever find anything on Adam?”  Lyra asked.  

“Oh, I’m afraid I didn’t.  I looked through as many of the zoological guides as I could, but there was nothing.  I’m so sorry.  But Twilight was nice enough to ask for access to the Royal Archive to see if they may have anything.”  She then flew up to my eye level, and looked at my head wound (Bon Bon has quite the swing for only using her teeth I might add!).  “How are you today, Mr. Adam?  Are you feeling any better at all?”  

“Oh, actually everything is just fine, thanks!”  I said as I smiled.  Both of my pony benefactors looked at each other nervously.  

“Well that’s just wonderful-“, Fluttershy paused.  I continued smiling.  Her eye grew wider, as her pupils contracted.  She looked at me, gave a little scream of fright and divebombed under the nearest bed, her hind legs skittering, trying to ram her further beneath it.  Lyra gave a knowing smile at Bon Bon, whose face was full of concern.  

“She took it better then you did.”  

“Hey!”  

I leaned over the bed to talk to Fluttershy, “I’m very sorry if I’ve frightened you, Ms. Fluttershy.  I know I’m not exactly a sight for sore eyes for anyone in this world.”  Bon Bon had just finished prying Fluttershy from beneath the bed frame, and she was tossed head over hooves to land right in front of me.  She was biting her lip in fright.  

“It talks!  It talks!”  

“He’s not an it!  He’s a human being!” Lyra said, as she stood on her back hooves shakily and crossed her forelegs.  

“Honestly Lyra, you’ve been spending too much time with him!”  Bon Bon said exasperatedly.  

“What?  I get to meet someone from an entirely different race, not to mention another dimension!  I can’t believe you don’t spend more time with him.”  

Fluttershy was still frozen to the spot she had landed.  I looked down at her, and then over to Bon Bon and Lyra, “I really don’t know what to do with her.”  

“Just give her a couple minutes to come to grips with the fact that you’re an alien from another world.” Bon Bon looked at me matter-of-factly.   

“It took you a whole day, bodily assault, and my whole story to finally get you to come around!”  

Bon Bon shrugged, “Nopony’s perfect.”  

Fluttershy had had enough; she had encountered an alien animal that could talk like a pony, and the ponies she had known had obviously been mind-controlled by its influence.  She had to get to Twilight Sparkle’s library; she’d know what to do!  With a last little yelp, Fluttershy, half flew/half ran out the door at a speed that would make a cheetah marvel.  

“Wait!  Come back!”  I don’t really know what compelled me to go after her, but I had to explain myself a little better to her I guess.