Hullo again. I think I might make a little note like this in every chapter now. Eh probably not. Anyways thank all of you for the favorites and likes. I hope you enjoy the next chapter!
Twilight didn't know what to make of the green stallion that had ran into her. She was just out on a errand for Zeckora, and the next thing she knew she was tackled and insulted by some stranger. She looked down to his leg and saw a deep gash with blood still dripping from the open wound.
" Let me help you!" Twilight cried but the green stallion was already fading and falling onto the floor. Twilight repeatedly tapped her feet on the ground worried about the strange pony that had ran into her. She silently got a hold of herself and stopped panicking.
" Come on Twilight you can do this." Twilight thought to herself trying to raise her spirits.
Twilight looked down at the pony that she had once wanted to give a piece of her mind, but now she seemed to be worried for him. She began thinking rationally and came to a solution to help the pony.
"That's right," Twilight thought, " Fluttershy's cottage has to be somewhere around here." Twilight looked back to the pony.
" But why was he in such a hurry in the first place?" she thought trying to come up with an explanation for the pony's actions. Then suddenly a wild and loud roar pierced the night air. Twilight looked into the forest where she could see a very angry manticore heading straight for her and the unconscious stallion at full speed. Twilight quickly reacted and put up her best magical field to stop the manticore. The manticore,now unable to stop, smashed head on with the almost invisible field, breaking it's nose completely. The manticore staggered for a few moments and then was filled with rage yet again. The beast lashed out with its tail almost cracking the shield that Twilight had put up to protect her and the stranger.
" This won't hold up much longer..." Twilight thought. Twilight knew there was no point in trying to calm the beast down so she thought of stunning it with a bright flash of light. She willed her horn to focus its magic at the tip and as her horn grew brighter and brighter a large flash of magic surrounded her and the green stallion. She then let the magic out in one very bright burst. The manticore blinked with confusion and rubbed its teary eyes unable to make out anything with it's eyes. Twilight quickly picked up the unconscious pony with her magic and set him on her back. She then quickly made a break for it down a small dirt path towards Fluttershy's cottage and didn't look back to the howling manticore.
Twilight had made it to Fluttershy's cottage in the middle of the night. She set the stallion down next to the door and knocked on it repeatedly.
" Come on Fluttershy," Twilight thought nervously as she saw the stallion was only getting paler and paler.
" Um...who is it?" a tired and quiet voice that came from inside said.
" It's me Fluttershy!" Twilight called. The door opened and Fluttershy stood in the doorway with a tired look in her face.
" What is it Twilight? It's so late a-" Fluttershy almost got through saying but then she saw the green stallion, " Oh my what happened?" she said with a look of shock on her face.
" That's what i'm trying to figure out, he got tangled up with a manticore in the Everfree Forest." Twilight said picking him up with her magic and carrying him inside. She walked past all the animals and set the passed out pony on the couch. Fluttershy came quickly behind and examined the green stallions injured leg.
" C-can you help him?" Twilight said bracing herself for what the answer might be.
" He should survive, but I can't say anything about the leg right now." Fluttershy said taking some clothe and cleaning the stallion's wound. " The poison from the manticore's tail is already making it's way through his bloodstream. There are some remedies but only time will tell." Fluttershy said putting the clothe down and walking over to the cabinets. Twilight looked at the poor mysterious pony that had bad enough luck to get in a fight with the manticore.
" Listen Twilight," Fluttershy said coming back with an ointment, " Normally I would love for you to stay the night, but as you can see i'm going to be busy all night with him, so why don't you head back to town? You look really tired." she said rubbing the ointment on the wound. Twilight realized just how tired she really was and nodded in agreement. Carrying the stallion all the way to Fluttershy's house was no walk in the park after all.
" Thank you Fluttershy." Twilight said walking out the door and into the middle of the night towards Ponyville.
The green stallion felt something tapping on his chest and a burning sensation in his right leg. He opened his eyes sheepishly to see a bunny standing on his chest.
" That was the worst dream in the hi-" the stallion thought but then he saw that he had a cast looking thing over his leg with a long red mark seeping through the gauze,and he saw that he had a green coat of fur and hooves for feet and hands. " God damn it, it was real..." the stallion thought groggily. He looked around and saw he was in some kind of hut that was teeming with animals and wildlife. " Looks like a petting zoo for crying out loud." the pony murmured to himself as he looked around the small hut.
" Why can't I remember anything?" the stallion thought trying to jog his memory like last night, but still he couldnt remember a thing about himself or his past, the only thing he could rememeber though was that he was not always a horse, and that he had been hunted down through a strange forest by some abomination of a lion, scorpion and eagle thing. The stallion looked back to the bunny on his chest that didn't seem to be happy.
"Well, its better than whatever attacked me last night." the pony said picking the bunny up by the neck and setting him on the floor. The stallion started to slide off the couch and stand up but his right leg had a shooting pain that went through his whole body and along his spine the second he put weight on it. The pony kneeled down to the ground unable to take the pain. He got back up but had the same results as the first time. Beads of sweat started to come down from his face as he kept trying to make it to the door to the outside. Eventually he gave up and just lied on the ground waiting for whoever had taken him in and helped him.
"Well if it was anyone that wanted to hurt me they probably would've done it by now." the stallion thought as he panted,trying to regain his breath. "Maybe it was that purple talking unicorn from last night..." the pony thought recalling the strange encounter with the purple unicorn from last night. " She did seem pretty mad about me running into her though, what was her name anyway?" the green pony thought sitting up on the wall. "Twi...Twiligh...Twilight?" he said to himself forming the words in his mouth and trying to remember the name that the unicorn had tried to tell him before he passed out. " Yeah, it must've been Twilight." he thought and as he came to this conclusion a yellow pony with wavy pink hair came in and started to feed all the animals.
"Um...Hi there." the stallion said awkwardly. The yellow pony nearly jumped out of it's skin as he said this. She ran away to somewhere in the house and he heard a door slam.
"Wait!" the green stallion shouted, " I didn't mean to scare you i'm sorry!" he yelled, but the frightened pony stayed in it's room. The green pony's ears drooped down as he realized what he had done. He decided to try and make up for it by apologizing so he chanced getting up with his injured leg. Slowly the stallion put more weight on the leg as he stood up. The pain was growing but was still bearable. The green stallion limped over to the door, and when he was about halfway there, he couldnt take the pain and the stallion fell to the ground chin first making a loud cracking noise.
" Great, first the leg and now my teeth!" the pony thought sarcastically. Then he heard the clicking of a door knob and looked up to see the frightened yellow pony, except now he could see that this pony had wings on it's sides. " What they talk and fly now?" the stallion thought.
" Excuse, um, but are you okay?" the pegasus asked quietly.
" Yeah, i'm alright I just wanted to walk ove-"
" You tried to walk on your leg?!" the yellow pony squealed. " Do you want to have a stub for the rest of your life?"
" No I guess?" the green pony said startled by this sudden outburst.
" Let me help you back on to the couch." she said as she propped the stallion's leg up with her back and walked him over to the couch. The stallion sat on the couch and sighed, rubbing his injured leg.
" Thank you," he said, " If you don't mind me asking, what is this place exactly?"
" Well, its my house." the pony said looking confused at the question, " Why does it look bad?" she asked as shyly.
" No no not at all, its really pretty and all, its just why so many animals?" the stallion said trying to cheer her up.
" I love animals, they're just so precious. Don't you think they're adorable?" the yellow pony inquired showing the stallion the bunny that had been giving him an evil glare ever since he woke up.
" Yup," the stallion said with another sigh, " I could just eat her up." The yellow pony reared back in fear as he said this.
" Why would you eat her?" the yellow pony gasped.
" No, your getting the wrong idea. It's just a figure of speech." the stallion said trying to take back any insults, but the yellow pony had already flew into her closet and pulled out a crutch, and a piece of paper.
" I think you should leave." the yellow pegasus said putting the crutch in his hooves along with the piece of paper. " You obviously can't stay here since you might eat one of the animals. This is a map into town. Good bye." she said shoving him out the door and slamming it.
" But I don't even know your name! What about my leg? Will it be okay? Pretty sure you said something about a nub!" the stallion shouted from outside. No response. " Ah fine, I'll go into the town of nutjob ponies!" he said as he fit the crutch under his leg and began to walk into the town.
" Was I too strict Angel?" Fluttershy asked her small bunny friend. Angel gave her a thumbs up along with a big smile.