When I woke up in the morning, I sat up in my bed and stretched my wings out.
Rainbow Dash suggested that I do that every morning so my wings don't cramp up when
I try to fly. I yawned and jumped out of bed, I walked over to the bedroom door,
I opened it and saw my friends walking by. I tried to say good morning but I couldn't,
my mouth just opened and the words didn't come out.
"That was weird" I thought, I tried to get their attention but I couldn't say anything,
It was very odd and concerned me, I tried to think of a reason why I couldn't talk
and I thought of one.
My voice was gone and I didn't know why, my throat didn't feel sore and I didn't
feel sick, I never heard of anyone just losing their voice before. I wondered if
the Timberwolf attack had anything to do with it, but I remembered none of them
got that close to us. So I thought "Did I just lose my voice and would I get it back?".
The thought of never being able to talk again scared me. A lot.
So, I tried other ways to get them to notice me, I tried waving my hooves but that
didn't work because they weren't looking at me. I then tried stomping my hooves but
no sound came from that either.
I was completely silenced and I felt like I wanted to cry.
I quickly ran up to catch them, and they finally noticed I was there, lifting the
worry that I turned invisible too.
"Hey Itsuki" Takumi said to me and I nodded to him, he gave me a strange look but
quickly shook his head and we continued to the kitchen.
Once we were there, I saw the Cutie Mark Crusaders were making breakfast. Well
Apple Bloom was, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were setting the table. When we entered
the room, I saw that Scootaloo noticed Iketani and ran up to hug him. It was really
cute and it made me smile for a moment. We then helped finish making breakfast and
sat down to eat.
I was wondering if they'd ever notice that I hadn't talked at all yet.
"You've been very quiet today Itsuki" Takumi said to me "Is something wrong?".
I nodded my head.
"What's wrong man?" Kenji asked.
I pointed at my mouth, hoping they'd get the idea.
"Can't you tell us?" Iketani asked him.
I shook my head at him.
"You can't tell us?" Takumi asked.
I nodded my head again.
"Yes you can or yes you can't?" Kenji asked.
I showed them that I couldn't talk, so I tried telling them that, letting the fact
no words came out when I opened my mouth.
"What happened?" Sweetie Belle asked me.
I lifted my hooves to tell her I didn't know.
"You lost your voice?" Scootaloo asked me.
I nodded my head.
"How?" Iketani asked me.
I did the same gesture I did to Sweetie Belle.
"Do you feel sick?" Takumi inquired.
I shook my head again.
"Can ponies just lose their voices?" Iketani asked.
"No, they can't" Apple Bloom answered, then a thought came to her head "Unless..".
"'Unless?' " I thought "What does she mean 'Unless'?".
"Unless what?" Takumi asked her like he read my thoughts, can Earth Ponies do that?
I'd have to ask Twilight that when she gets back, if I can talk again by then that
is.
"What do you think happened" he asked.
Apple Bloom looked at Scootaloo then at me "Did either of you see blue flowers?".
I nodded my head, I remember seeing a huge patch of bright, blue flowers in the
forest.
"Did you walk in them?" she asked.
I nodded.
I noticed that Apple Bloom had a worried look on her face "Uh oh".
"What 'uh oh'? What happened?" Kenji asked her "And what do blue flowers have to do
with this?".
"The blue flowers are called poison joke, there a plant that can make weird things
happen to you" Apple Bloom told us "My big sister and her friends had a run-in with
it a few years back" she then continued "It did all sorts of weird stuff, but luckly
there is a cure and I have a friend who can make it!".
I felt some relief when she said that there was a cure for this.
"Great!" Takumi said happily "Let's go get it!".
"Are you sure you want to?" Kenji said teasingly "I mean, look how quiet he is".
That comment made me upset, I felt like I wanted to cry, it hurt my feelings. Does
my talking bother him that much? Do I talk that much? I suddenly felt something on
my shoulder, I turned and saw that Takumi had put his hoof on it.
"We're going to get the cure" he told me reassuringly.
When Apple Bloom told us that her friend lived in the Everfree Forest, I was a little
nervous about going back there after last night. But I went along with my friends,
even Scootaloo came along, which sorta surprised me after how scared she got. Then
I noticed she hadn't left Iketani's side since we left the castle.
After we met Apple Bloom's friend, a Zebra named Zecora, I found the way she talked
kinda cool, trying to come up with rhymes for everything can't be easy, I wondered if
I could try talking like that, but I think it would annoy everyone more.
Zecora gave us the cure and told us I needed to take a bath with them. Apple Bloom
said something about going to the spa. Zecora said goodbye and we left the forest.
"And not a moment too soon" I thought.
Once we were at the spa, Apple Bloom helped prepare the bath with the cure in it,
but I didn't want to go in yet. Not until Kenji apologized for what he said to me at
breakfast.
"You have to get in for the cure to work Itsuki" Apple Bloom explained to me
"My sister says it actually is quite nice".
"Nope, not going in, not yet" I thought to myself.
"What's the matter?" Iketani asked "Do you not like how it smells?".
I shook my head.
"Do you think the water is too hot?" Scootaloo asked me.
I shook my head and pointed at Kenji.
"Me?" Kenji asked and I nodded "What about me?".
I used my hooves to gesture away from them, then I pointed to my mouth, I pointed
to myself then back at Kenji.
"I think he wants you to apologize for what you said earlier, when you suggested we
leave him this way" Takumi said to Kenji, seriously can he read my thoughts?
Kenji looked over to me "That hurt your feelings, that much?" he asked.
I nodded my head.
"I'm really sorry Itsuki" Kenji told me "I shouldn't have said that".
I smiled and nodded my head "Apology accepted" I thought to myself.
"Now well you go in?" Takumi asked me.
I stuck my hoof in the water and quickly pulled it back out.
"The water is really hot" I thought "I wonder if I wait a little longer it will-"
my thoughts were cut off as I felt myself floating off the ground, then I was above
the water. I turned and saw that Iketani had an irritated look on his face.
"He must be using his magic to lift me up" I thought "He better put me down outside
of the water or I'll-" my thoughts were once again cut off as I fell into the water
with a splash, I stuck my head above the surface and glared at him.
"Hey man! That wasn't fair!" I shouted at him.
"At least you can talk again right?" Iketani asked me with a small grin.
"Yeah, hey wait, I can talk again!" I said happily "I don't ever want to feel
that way again".
"Alright then" Apple Bloom said "Now how about we get on outta here? We still have a
whole day ahead of us!".
I dried off with a towel Scootaloo gave me, as we left Kenji walked up beside
me.
"I'm really sorry about what I said to you earlier" Kenji said to me "I didn't think
it would hurt your feelings that much".
"It did" I told him "But I also didn't realize that I talked that much, do I really
annoy you that much?".
"You can be extremely chatty, but not enough to make it that you should never talk
again" Kenji answered "How did it feel not being able to talk?".
"It was... The.. Worst thing... Ever!" I replied.
"Wow, that bad?".
"Yes" I said to him "I don't want to be like that ever again".
"Then stay out of Poison Joke" Kenji said with a smile.
We both laughed as we left the spa and headed back to the castle.