//------------------------------// // Stumbling; Chapter 2 // Story: Trapped from the Inside // by PapyrusPlays //------------------------------// This time all the saw was black. I didn't dare open my eyes. I tried to wiggle my fingers. I didn't feel anything brush them. Infact, it felt like my fingers were glued together. I... couldn't... move! I rolled onto my back, and bleated like a goat, "He-el-l-ooo?" Good. I could speak. The Angal said I was in someplace new. I opened my eyes slowly, expecting flaming lava, and ugly aliens looming over me to take me to prison. Instead I was greeted by tall evergreens, and a hill. Around me, there were smoldering flowers, and the trunk of tree was cut in half. I had hit this place with the force of a rogue comet. Where I had hit, remained unclear. I had cuts and bruises all over my hands and knees and-- "OH MY JESUS, MARY, JOSEPH!" I cried looking at myself. "What.. the HELL AM I?!" I swerved, sitting myself up, and circling like a dog. "I'm a furry. I'm... literally... an animal..." I had a dark chocolate mane of hair. Ooh and a tail too! Lilac fur, and creme splotches. Wings! The only down side, I had weird hoof things, couldn't stand up, and this muzzle thing was irritating. Standing. Lets stand first. I raised myself to the highest I could go. It felt like the most painful, and lengthy push up ever to stand. Maybe I was a baby, and shouldn't be walking... I thought on that a moment. Nah. I was so beat up, when I took my first step, it added to the pain severely. And I stumbled onto my face. "Crap." I groaned, peeling myself from the dirt. I was going to do this. I took another step, and bit my cheek to focus the pain there. I waited, and took another. Step by step, I regained confidence, and made it slowly out of the crater. I stopped abruptly, hearing a laugh. "And so then I was like, 'Whaaaat!?,' and then Mrs. Cake was like, 'Whaaaat!?,' and- ooh new comer! HI NEW COMER!" rambled a girl's voice. High pitched. Very Annoying. Very sweet. Oh no. Had I been transported to a little girl's show!? I heard another. And another. And another. There were six, female furries coming near me! I tapped my stumpy hooves on the ground, and lost my balance, and.. you can probably guess where I ended up. On my back. In plain sight. A formal, mellow voice stated, "Dashie I dunno if we should tal--" "Yeah, yeah, lets just say hello." said a more gruff, biker girl voice. A blue, winged horse peered inquisitively at me. But she was flying above me... ten feet from my face. Was I a horse thing too? I squeaked weakly, "Oh... hello there." The blue horse smiled, and called for it's comrades. "Twilight, Pinkie, guys! She's sane alright? You're safe." A winged unicorn, a normal unicorn, another winged horse, and plain horses came down the hill. The blue one flew to greet them, and they all encircled me. "Are you alright, dear?" asked a white unicorn. The winged unicorn stared worriedly at me, demanding, "State your name." I was at loss for words... "I'm Princess Twilight Sparkle, these are my friends, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Apple Jack, Rainbow dash, and Rarity." Oh my god I was in a kids show. Panicking, I fidgeted with my hooves. "My name? Oh that's easy..." Peri was a weird name already, but my full name... "P-Periwinkle Blink." I coughed, restraining a bit of laughter. My real full name is Periwinkle Kaya Link. I know, weird right? Apparently they didn't suspect a thing. "O-or Peri for short--" I broke out into a fit of coughing, and realized how cold it was. Even these horse things were wearing scarves, and little mittens. I fell into the grass. The white unicorn, and orange horse helped me up. "What are you doing?" Rarity, or whatever she was called, put her scarf around me, and helped Apple jack hoist me onto their backs. "My dear, you look as sickly as a green Hearth's warming sweater! We must help you. I insist." I couldn't pass up an offer like that. "Thank y-you... But I gotta stand, I'm not that bad." The second they let me off Apple Jack's back I fell, and I could have sworn I heard the crack of a bone. My left hoof fell limp. "This isn't normal... none of this is normal. I don't know where I am. I'm away from home, and I miss my Mom!" I continued to mutter like this, until I burst into tears and lost my voice. The other horse things shared looks of pity, and led me away from my crater, and I blacked out to the movement of Apple Jack's shoulder blades rocking me to sleep.