Chapter Nine, Books and Fish.
When I got back I dumped two new fish and my sack of apples in the kitchen, all except for one which I placed on the table. I took my brand new blade out of its sheath and slashed it clean in half. It wasn’t a massive machete, but it was big enough. I still owed (BLACKSMITH) another two bits for it, but he/she said he/she trusted me since I was a friend of the mane six. I chuckled to myself as I went upstairs with a smile on my face to find Twilight and see how she was. I could hear her as I was coming up the stairs.
“No… no… no… WHERE IS IT!?” As I opened the study door I had to duck to avoid a book.
“What the...?” I was cut off by a second book that did hit me. I saw stars and fell to the floor.
“Oh my goodness! What have I done! Are you ok?”
“What the fuck is your problem universe?” I groaned. Twilight rushed over to me.
“Ohmygodohmygodohmygod I am so sorry!” Twilight was by my side trying to prop me up against a wall.
The book had hit me square in the head which bloody hurt, but don’t get me wrong, but it could have been worse. “Yeah, I’m alright Twilight, calm down”
“No you’re not, your bleeding!” I put a hand to my forehead. It had a hot and sticky fluid trailing down it. She was right, I was bleeding.
“Fuck me blue, what do you make books out of around here? Concrete!?”
“Oh goodness, I’ll be right back” she ran off downstairs to find something and came back with a damp cloth, she tried to put it to my forehead but I took it off her
“I got this” I said and put there myself.
She was biting her lip now, surely it couldn’t be that bad. I took the cloth away and looked at it. Ah… Apparently it could. The cloth was drenched in blood.
Spike then opened the door which smacked me on the back of the head. “What happened?” he asked and then saw me on the floor unconscious again with blood pooling around me. “Oh…”
Spike went off and brought Nurse heart back with him.
“Well” Nurse Heart began as she finished tying off the bandage “It should be healed in a couple of days due to Twilights magic and my medical skills, but you’d better keep the bandage on until then just in case, and I would recommend you stay in for the rest of today” I mumbled an understanding and she turned to twilight “And you, out to be more careful where you throw your books”
“I know, I know, I was trying to find a certain one and in my frustration I started chucking them about”
“Yes well, try not to do that from now on, especially to a guy with a machete” The nurse then looked down at me and gave a wink. “Thanks for getting me spike, if she does it again, give me a call”
“Yes ma’am” Spike then gave a daft salute and Nurse Heart left.
Twilight looked at me and I looked back at her.
“Thanks for that” I said.
Don’t be like that, I could have really hurt you! What if I hit you in the eye!?”
“Well, I was more worried about somewhere else, but that would have been pretty bad as well…”
“Don’t joke about this DMT” She said disapprovingly.
“Oh come on Twi, I’m only trying to lighten up the mood” I got up and pulled her into a hug “Am I dead?”
“No” she sniffed
“Well then, you obviously didn’t try hard enough” She chuckled slightly into my shoulder. “Now then, I’ve got a sack of apples and a couple of fish through there, you hungry?” She nodded and I let her go.
I had got to gutting, de-boning and frying the fish while Twilight chopped up some apples and put them in a salad of sorts with some pomegranate and she separated the salad onto two plates. I placed half of the diced and fried fish onto mine and the stopped for a second.
“You sure you don’t want any of this?” She shook her head. I kept the same position. Three… two… one…
“Well, actually now I think about it…” There we go. “…I might try a bit, just for educational purposes, to see what it’s like. I mean, it’s not like its alive anymore, and it doesn’t look like a fish anymore… And it’s not like it was another pony… I might even be able to include it in one of my letters to Princess Celestia”
I put a bit of it in front of her nose and she gave it a sniff, a curious nibble and then gobbled it up. “That’s surprisingly nice! I might have some then” I poured the rest of the fish onto her plate and she began eating it before I even got to sit down. I smiled at her as she ploughed her way through the food.
“Just wait till I get some dressings on the roll” I say “Do you sell salad dressings in Ponyville?”
“I believe so, I never really go into spice and food shops much, but I’m sure somepony around here sells them” I nodded and then set about eating my food… no knife or fork, of course there wasn’t. I took out my machete and used that to spear food and put it into my mouth. I would have to design some of those as well. It’s amazing how much you miss some simple everyday objects when they’re not there. Like a bed. A razor. A bike. I especially missed that last one. I could go everywhere with my bike before, Pinkie had a tricycle in one of the episodes I’d seen, but things like that were stupid and far too small for me.
After we were done I challenged Twilight to a game of chess. The pieces were different, but the game was basically the same. She beat me of course, but it was a good game and I did quite well. We had another game, and another, and another until we realised it was quite late. We finished and went to bed after nine games. (Seven to her and two to me.) We said our goodnights and hopped off. I was going to check the notice boards tomorrow to see if anyone wanted my help with anything yet. It was doubtful, but there might be something there now.