//------------------------------// // Tempest Noms // Story: Tales from Tinies. // by MrAquino //------------------------------// Ever since the arrival of the humans appearing all over Equestria, they've been powerless and weak to being able to prevent themselves from being eaten by the superior ponies and other creatures around them. However, there was one human that went to desperate measures to defending himself, and ponies even feared this one specific tiny for what he'd done. They even called him "the Edged One" because of his actions. It all started out as a human named Andrew entered the world of Equestria, just like all of the other humans that have been vanishing into the bigger realm full of ponies. He gets up as he looked around to see that he was in someone's house, not realizing at first he was no bigger than a mouse. Andrew was a young man in this 20's, who wore a dark purple t-shirt, light gray shorts, and black flip flops. His hair was brown, but it was so dark that people would mistake his hair color as black, and his eyes were a bluish grey. As he stands on all two of his legs, he backed up in fright as he sees the massive living room that surrounds him. Unknowing to the new tiny, the owner of the house, a stallion was watching him as he smiled the tiny. 'looks like it's my lucky day,' the stallion thought to himself. 'A tiny trapped in my own home!' Andrew could feel the unusual heavy and warm breathing behind him as goosebumps form on his skin, which was a slight bit more tan than most folks. When he turned around, he could see the grin on the stallion's face. "What the hell!?...Am I dreaming?" he said as he looked at himself as the stallion lifted his head. "...No, I can't be. I NEVER realize I would be dreaming if this was a dream!" "That's right, tiny one. This is real," the stallion said as his face was right above Andrew, who could now notice the stallion's green fur and brown, smooth mane. "I'm guessing you're new around here, huh?" Andrew backed up a little bit, as he felt unsafe a bit. 'Maybe he's friendly?' Andrew thought to himself. 'After all, he's a bit colorful and cheerful to be dangerous.' He started to speak up. "...Um...Uh...Yeah, I guess so...Wherever I am." "Well then, let me tell you about something," He said as he lowered his head in closer to the small human. "You tinies are tasty to us, and I'm feeling a bit hungry." As soon as the stallion said that, he licked his lips that made Andrew lose all sense of safety. "Oh crap!" Andrew quickly tried to outrun the stallion, but a giant green hoof blocked his path and pulls him back. "Don't worry, tiny one. I'll make this quick~." The hoof of the pony dragged him closer and closer to the open maw. In a bit of panic, Andrew tried to look for something to grab on. What he spotted he noticed was a loose nail on the wooden floor. He knew it wouldn't hold him from entering the jaws of the green horse, but the sight of it gave him an idea of how to defend himself from what he assumed would be his end. With little effort, he pulled out the nail from the boards and then poked it at the hoof of the stallion. The sharp nail dug into the skin of the stallion as he then screamed out in pain and backed away from Andrew, allowing him the chance of escape as he quickly hurried towards the door that the green stallion left open. The stallion noticed him leaving the house, and with a bit of anger, he was now determined to catch the tiny. "Alright, no more Mr. Nice Pony!" As Andrew rushed out to the open world, he stopped to see a whole crowd of ponies around him who were just minding their usual day. "...You got to be kidding me!" Andrew growled. "What kind of crazy movie am I in!? Attack on Giant Ponies?" Just then, the stallion barged from behind and attempted to tackle the tiny human, who was now spotted by all of the nearby ponies. "Get back here, Tiny!" Just as the maw of his tried to snatch the human, Andrew then launched his nail into the pony's gums as he then quickly pulled it out. The Stallion backed up in pain as he tried to use his hoof to prevent his mouth from bleeding. The human with the bloody nail looked around to see all of the other ponies gasping and backing away. It seemed ironic how something so small could be so threatening to the ponies. He pointed at every one that were in his sight, seeming that he too was a bit afraid, since he was confused on what's going on. Suddenly, a lavender pony with both wings and a horn came flying down and landed in front of the human. She began to speak. "Everypony, please calm down. What exactly is going on here?" "I can explain that," said the green stallion who still covered his injury as he walked forward looking down at the small human. "I found this tiny in my home, and he attacked me twice!" Andrew growled as he looked back at the stallion. "You were trying to eat me! I was only defending myself!" The stallion looked back as he felt like the tiny was pinning the blame on the stallion. "It's not like I was going to kill you." "Eating me WOULD be killing me!" the human yelled. "Can you both please calm down," the lavender pony said as she looked at both of them. Andrew looked at the 'winged unicorn', who in his mind seemed pretty, but was more concerned on the topic. "Alright, I don't know who are you creatures and where the heck am I, but I am not going to be pushed around by you foul creatures!" A huff escaped the green stallion. "Watch your language! You're speaking to Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship!" Andrew tilted his head as he looked at the stallion who tried to eat him. "...Friendship? How does one be the ruler of- You know what, I don't want to know!" The human then looked at the Princess of Friendship. "Princess, I ask of you to get me away from this...carnivore!" Twilight lets out a sigh as she then walked up to the tiny as she picked him up with her magic. "How about we talk about this somewhere private? I'm sure we can reason this out." "Thank you for your co-operation..." Andrew said as he felt a bit surprised how she's lifting him up as if she was a Jedi using the force on him, but knowing that science didn't seem to exist here, he just decided to role along with it. "So, what's your name?" Twilight asked the human. "...I'm Andrew..." He said with a sigh. "Nice to meet you Andrew. Forgive that stallion for trying to eat you. I'm sure you've been aware of your kind making you 'vanish' from your world, and appearing in our world. Not only this same magic has made you appear tiny in our world, but it has also made your kind somehow tasty, and most ponies struggle to resist eating you. Luckily, the magic prevents your kind from being harmed by our stomachs, and even prevents you from going in...Well, 'too deep'." Andrew raised an eyebrow, slightly weirded out on what she said. "...I doubt the part of being unharmed by your stomachs...I'll have to see it to believe it...and I don't think I'm ready to see it." Twilight then managed to arrive at the tiny village that was in Ponyville and sets down Andrew. "Don't worry. We've been making sure that the whole 'eating tiny' thing is more strict to reduce the amount of problems between our races. For instance, this village is a safe zone, where it is forbid for any pony to enter, let alone snatch a tiny. I'm sure you can get a place of your own within the village." Andrew looked up at the lavender princess, who just simply gives him a friendly smile. Just the sight of possibly the cutest princess he's ever seen made him smile too. The tiny (And armed, since he brought the nail with him that he 'stole' from the stallion's house.) lets out a deep breath. "Thank you, your...majesty..." He coughed to try to clear his throat. "I...Um...Am glad that we were able to...Well, work things out, I guess..." Andrew walked into the village as he rubbed his head. So much had happened so quickly to him, and he even started to get a bit of a headache. "...Well, at least I know where the 'vanished' have disappeared to," He said outloud to himself. "This is going to be hard to get used to...Then again, could be worse..." Once the tiny had joined the village as he looked and started to speak to the tinies within the said village, Twilight flew back to her castle and when she closed the front door behind her, she slouched and huffed a bit, being thankful that the tiny didn't try to attack her as well. Spike walked up as he noticed her, placing a hand on her shoulder...er, if ponies even technically had shoulders. "Twilight, what's the matter?" Spike said, waiting for her to reply. "...Some new human appeared, but this one is more stubborn than most tinies I've met before. He even went out to attack a pony to prevent himself from being eaten. He seemed to even be willing to attack others from the way it looks." Spike placed his claws on his cheeks as he suddenly started to get scared a bit. "You don't think he could be one of those tinies who...Killed a snatcher, do you?" Spike said as he made a nervous gulp" Twilight then got up and pats Spike on the back. "He seemed to have just recently arrived and was just trying to prevent being eaten by a stallion. He's most likely never heard of a snatcher, nor did he even knew he was going to be alright. I'm sure that he'll eventually calm down and maybe even apologize to the pony later on. In the meantime, I'm going to continue my research a bit more." After a week passed, Twilight had been hearing complaints from the locals. It seemed that the green stallion wasn't the only one who dared try to eat "the Edged One", who now ponies had began to call Andrew, for he seemed to always carried around the same nail he stole from the said stallion. Reports of 3 other stallions who've tried to eat the tiny, seeing this as a challenge, were said to have been cut and slashed at. One even nearly lost an eye to this human, and it was even told that the human village Twilight sent him to even voted to ban him from their 'safe zone'. Starlight was also looking at the written reports that the ponies had sent about the Edged One. Twilight moaned as she banged her head onto the table. Starlight started to speak up. "This human sounds even more violent than Stacy. I'm just worried that he may eventually join that group. Should we get that Knights of Unification that Celestia has to...Well, arrest him or something?" Twilight looked at Starlight, feeling nervous as she didn't want to make things worse. "I'd rather not have them involved. It's not like he's a threat to the other ponies...Yet..." She rubbed her chin as the Princess of Friendship tries to think of what to do. "...Maybe he just needs a friend who can help him understand...And...Hopefully keep him under control." Spike then walked in carrying a few books for Twilight, and joined in the conversation. "I'm thinking maybe some pony tough and brave enough to put up with him, like how Dash can put up with Stacy." Spike then sets down the books next to Twilight. "I find it a coincidence that one of those stallions he attacked had a scar just like Tempest. Funny thing, huh?" Starlight shivered as she was reminded of when Tempest Shadow lead an invasion on Canterlot and imprisoned everypony (And even tinies) that was at the Festival of Friendship. Twilight's ears then perked up as she suddenly had an idea that made her smile. "...Tempest..." A few hours later, Andrew was walking across the fields with 'his' nail out like it was a sword, and while he held it in his right hand, he had a note on his left. He continued to read it as he grumbled a bit, walking towards some sort of lone tree on a small hill. "...This is just great. First I was kicked out of the village just because I 'wouldn't contribute to the village', and now her majesty has sent me to meet...Some kind of, 'old friend' by the-" Before he finished what he was saying, something big, roundish, and dark grey, with what looks like a white mohawk walked from the other side of the hill, which began to interrupt what Andrew was saying "-By the lone tree on top of the hill, you'll find a tiny with dark brown hair, and most likely armed with a tiny weapon, so please be careful to not get harmed. Sincerely, Twilight Sparkle." The strange looking creature then put down his note that he had, which coincidentally looked like Andrew's note as he looked around, and easily spotted Andrew. "...Huh, that was easy," the...hedgehog(?) said as he walked up to him, but not too close. "Andrew, the 'Edged One,' was it?" He asked to the tiny. "That title is kinda getting annoying, but yeah, that's me. What do you want?" Andrew said as he crossed his arms. The short (But not to him) creature then started to clear his throat as if he was going to make a speech or something as he then pull out a scroll from...somewhere...And started to read it out loud. "Ponies of Equestia! We come on the behalf, of the fearsome, the powerful, the almighty...!" He stop for a minute and reads it for a bit, then looked a bit embarrassed. "...Sorry, wrong intro." After putting the one scroll away, he brings out another one, then clears his voice again as Andrew seemed a bit confused still. "Andrew the 'Edged One'! You have committed crime against the ponies of Equestria. By the order of the Princess of Friendship, you will be sentence to be the prisoner of Ex-Commander Tempest!" He shouted as he then had his arm out and he posed like when someone welcomes someone onto the stage. However, he was just looking at the open field as the creature's arm went back down. "...Oh yeah, I was suppose to bring you to her." Andrew still had his nail out and he used both his hands to grip at it, pointing at the hedgehog creature. "I don't know who you are, or who this 'Temple'...or 'Tempest', or what's-her-name is, but I am NOT going to let you put a single finger...Er, claw, on me!". The hedgehog raised an eyebrow, then smiled as if an idea suddenly popped into his head. He reached into the back of him, who Andrew still don't know what's he reaching into, since he clearly didn't had pants on, so he didn't have pockets, as the white haired (Not sure if it's hair, though) creature pulled out some kind of tiny orb with what looked like a green crystal inside. "No better time to test this out to see if these work on tinies." Andrew tilted his head as he watched him raised the orb into the air as it looked like he was going to throw it. "What the heck is-?" That was all Andrew could say before the last thing he saw was green smoke and grey crystals forming around him, then everything becoming black... "...Grubber, you are sure this is safe for him? I've already have gotten a bad enough reputation from you-know-what," Said a female voice, who sounded very serious. As Andrew started to wake up, he then felt that whoever the female voice must have been that 'Tempest' he's been hearing about from who he assume was 'Grubber', who he thought was a weird name for the hedgehog creature thing, who he started to hear his voice too. "Come on! It's not that bad! They even taste AND feel good! Trust me, I tried one once. I just don't eat them because they're not that filling. That's why I let the one I ate go free. Oh, speaking of tiny, he's awake!" Andrew rubbed his head as he looked at himself for a bit, then shook his head. "Ugh! What the hell did you just do to me?!" "Oh, I wouldn't worry about what happened...I think you should worry more on what WILL happen," Grubber said as he chuckled in an evil way while turning the tiny cage Andrew was in, which was being held by Grubber himself. From seeing the anthro-like Hedgehog, to now seeing the dark purple unicorn with a magenta-ish mane, a broken horn which seemed to be creating sparks from it, and wearing black armor. Her serious looking eyes stare down at him as he could see the scar that resembled the same scar that he gave to a stallion who he nearly ended up cutting their eye out. Her muzzle came closer to him as she watched him in his tiny cage that Grubber held. "Not so tough, now that you have no weapon," she said, as that made Andrew looked around, realizing he no longer has his personal nail. "...Aw crap..." Andrew looked back at the dark mare, knowing his fate was in her hands...Er, hooves. "Alright, here's the deal: I owe Twilight Sparkle a...Lot of favors, and since you've been causing a bit of problems with her 'loyal subjects', she's requested me to make you my own edible prisoner." The part 'edible' got his attention. "...She sent me to you just so you could eat me...Dammit, and I thought I could trust her..." Tempest grinned as she giggled sinisterly. "I've been hearing a lot of how ponies enjoy eating your kind. I, for one, have never dared to give one a try...But since the Princess had requested to keep you in my stomach until you are no longer...'violent'..." Just before she continued to speak, Grubber tilted the cage at a 90 degree angle, to where Andrew falls onto the side of the cage where he was now facing Tempest's lips underneath him. The tiny now realized that Grubber was standing on top of a table, which from the look of it, shown that Tempest was a lot bigger than most ponies, especially for a mare, which now continued on what she was going to say with a smirk. "...You will have the honor to be the first to become my tiny snack~." Suddenly, the front of Andrew felt the tongue of the broken horned mare slurp the tiny prisoner as it was long, warm and wet. A faint blush appeared on the cheeks of the tiny as Tempest smacked her lips to get a good taste of the human. "...Mmm, cinnamon rolls...Oh, and don't worry, little one...I'll make sure I'll make this last~." Before Andrew could say a word, Grubber then pulled him out of the cage and danged him as he held onto his shirt, while keeping his head facing down towards the face of the ex-commander pony. "Time to go down the 'hatch,'" Grubber said as he laughed a bit while lowering the prisoner closer to Tempest's lips, which then opened up wide as she let out an 'aaah', waiting for the tiny to enter his next little prison. Andrew started to slightly panic as he could see the saliva in her maw started to drip from the top and landed at the back of her pulsating throat, which he knew would be his destiny now. The small human could have tried to jump away, but seeing how he got closer and closer, he knew resistance was futile. Next thing he knew, everything became dark for him as the only thing he could feel was the warm, soft, and saliva-coated tongue of hers. It would have stayed dark for him, but thanks to the magic that brought him to Equestria in the first place, he was able to see her pearly white teeth, which stayed shut to prevent him from having any chances of getting away. Before he could manage to get up inside of her warm maw, the tongue of hers begin to toss him around, then began to lick his small form. The sounds of 'mmm' vibrated all around, which caused Andrew to begin blushing a bit. Most humans would normally panic being eaten for the first time, but something about him being tasted and toyed in the maw of the dark mare felt just so...comforting. Instead of showing struggling against his fate, he accepted it. "...Hm. I'd expect you to put up more of a fight," Tempest said, while making sure he'd stay within her mouth. "On the other hoof, that means this won't be painful for you." As she grins once again, she then begins to tilt her head back, causing Andrew to soon slide straight towards her open gullet that still looked dark even with the magic's 'night vision' it gave him. He did try to grab a hold of one of the taste buds on her tongue, but he was soaked with so much drool of the soldier pony that everything was slippery to him, which led him into the dark, as she let out a loud gulp to remind him who's got control over him. Ironically for such a tough mare like Tempest, her throat's muscles was gently as it squeezes around the tiny that faintly squirms as he journeys downward, feet first to his new prison cell. After what nearly felt like a few minutes, he then felt the endoscopes open up and let him fall into the deep chamber that was Tempest's stomach. When he landed in the shallow acid pool that laid in her gut, the ex-commander let out a belch that was loud, even for having such a small snack. When he got up, he gazed around, which surprisingly was empty to him. He expected to see at least a few skeletons inside, but then remembered she said he was going to be her first. A part of him wondered what it would be like to get digested, but he was interrupted from his thought as he felt the faint hooves rubbing her belly a bit from the outside. "...Hm...This DOES feel good~," He heard Tempest say. There was another voice, but he couldn't make out what Grubber say as the sounds from the outside world were muffled by her pulsating walls, which gurgled around him. With no where to go, and nothing that he could do, he laid against the stomach walls and curled up, and closed his eyes. Andrew opened his eyes and then examined his surroundings, now no longer in the gut of the dark colored mare. He had appeared on top of a table next to a plate of pancakes which Tempest seems to be eating, while Grubber had just set his plate on the table, and then began to eat the breakfast he obviously made, since he had a chef hat and a white apron on. As the tiny human got onto his feet and looked up at Tempest, she began to speak after swallowing some of the pancake. "Ah, good. You're awake. Breakfast is ready for you." She then cut a small part of her pancake, that was just enough for Andrew to have plenty to eat. He tilted his head as he seemed to be confused. "...Hang on, how did I got out of your gut alive?" After Tempest ate another bite of her pancake, she cleared her throat as she used a napkin to wipe her maw. "Surely even you have heard that Tinies, or 'humans' which you call yourselves, are immune to stomach acids. Besides, I was told to keep you as a prisoner, not to execute you. After breakfast, you're going back in there." The tiny human looked at the tiny slice of pancake, which looked huge to him, as he then begins to eat a part of it. It was surprisingly good. Andrew let out a sigh as he slowly eats his share, while eventually Tempest finished hers as she looked down at the human. She remembered that Twilight asked to see if she could befriend Andrew, hoping to prevent him from seeing other ponies as 'monsters', so she began to see about starting a conversation. "...You ever had any friends back from where you came from?" Andrew then stopped eating as he then lowered his head as he started to remember something. "... I used to," he said, after sitting down and holding onto the last of his share of the pancake. "...But about during the last years of going to school, they eventually moved away, and I never heard from them again. Ever since then, I never had a friend. I could have tried, but I just...Never did..." Tempest remembered how her friends back in her childhood also had abandoned her, leaving her alone and with no one. She then stood up and picked up the human as he still had the tiny pinch of pancake left with him. "Twilight told me you've put up a bit of a fight with a few ponies before. Some would consider that as a challenge to eat you, especially snatchers...So how about this, I will give you some extra time out of my stomach by giving you some combat lessons to help you from defend from such snatchers, but as long as you don't use them to intentionally harm others. Is that understood?" After hearing her offer for training, he had thought about this for a moment. Back on Earth, he was thinking about considering to learn fencing so that he could learn melee combat, just like in the video games he used to play like. It would also get probably boring if he had to spend who knows how many weeks or months inside of Tempest's gut, so it seemed like there was little of a choice. "...Very well. I'll accept the offer." Tempest nods as she then faced Grubber. "Grubber, I need you to-." She then stopped to see that Grubber was already asleep after finishing his pancakes. The broken horned unicorn looked disappointed at first, but then smiled and shook her head. "I'll get him to make you a weapon later. In the meantime, we'll just start using a bottle cap to practice shielding" As she was about to leave the room after putting the human on top of her mane, she had just realized something. "By the way, how DID you get out of my stomach?" Andrew then looked down at her, with a confused expression. "I thought YOU let me out. I didn't do anything." Tempest rubbed her chin as she seemed puzzled. "...Hm...that's...odd. Well, try not to get out without my permission next time." Andrew nodded, starting to once again form trust for a pony, and maybe even a bond with her. How he got out of her stomach still made him wonder though...