//------------------------------// // Prologue: I Never Wanted This // Story: Saving a Hopeless Soul // by Mister E-Nonymous //------------------------------// Prologue: I Never Wanted This (Danny's Point of View) Have you ever wondered what it's like to wake up from a nightmare, knowing that your mom and dad would be there to help you out from what you experienced in your sleep. Well, I did. Or at least I used to. My name is Danny. Danny Philips. I was a happy young boy in Bend, Oregon, one of the top ten friendliest places in the United States of America. I had a lot of friends there, and I loved being around with them. But all of that changed one day. I was waiting for my mom and dad to pick me up from school, but I waited hours. I was wondering what was taking so long, until a car from Social Services pulled up, along with a couple police cars. The man from Social Services told me that my parents had been killed in a car crash, due to a reckless driver crashing into the car my parents were in. The guy from Social Services asked me if I had any family besides my parents. I said that only my aunt and uncle are left. But when I tried telling them that my aunt and uncle weren't really nice to my parents and me, the man from Social Services wouldn't listen. I was then on a flight from Redmond, Oregon to Memphis, Tennessee. Now, you see that moving to Tennessee would be good and growing up in the same town as famous football left tackler, Michael Oher, would be a good thing. But it's not when you're staying in Hurt Village and not being able to leave the property because your mean aunt and uncle won't let you. I was hoping that my aunt and uncle would at least send me to school, but my aunt Natasha and my uncle Reginald were wanting me to be home schooled by their own special way. They made me clean up the entire house whenever there was a mess. Sometimes, my uncle Reginald makes a mess and blames it on me. I wasn't happy here. I wanted to get out of there. So, one night, I planned on running away late one night, but I was instantly caught by my aunt Natasha, and slapped me hard in the face and she made me sleep in the cold basement with no pillow or blanket. And to make things worse, I was locked in my room that can only be unlocked from the outside, and they put bars over my windows so I wouldn't get out again. My mom and dad would never do this to me. I wish I could be with them one last time. But, I'm stuck here. Today is even worse. My aunt and uncle had a tall fence with barbed wire over it so I wouldn't be able to get out. When they go out, I was locked in the gate, and I was forced to mow the lawn while they were out. This wasn't fair. Why did I deserve this? I was really tired, and really thirsty. The water bill wasn't payed for, and my parents fed me nothing but meat ever since I got there. My parents taught me to eat my vegetables to stay healthy, but I was getting tired of meat. When I was halfway done with mowing the lawn, I was exhausted. I was really tired. But then, I just spaced out. I was hit by a single drop of water which landed on my nose. I don't know how long I was knocked out, but I was at least getting some water for my dehydration. I opened my eyes to see that it was dark out and a storm was going. I didn't believe it, because Memphis was in the middle of a drought. Then I just noticed, I was somewhere high up and saw a village below me. I was really high up. I then had an itch on my nose and I raised my hand to my nose to itch, but something hard impacted my face. I was confused at first, my hand usually wasn't that hard. But when I took a look at it, instead of my hand, I saw a light teal blue hoof where my hand should be. I was confused, but I looked up it towards my body, and saw that my entire body was covered in fur. I looked around and saw that, sprouting from my backside was a tail. It was still blonde, but there were two blue streaks going through it. I also noticed that I had wings on my back. I was confused. I was some kind of small horse for some reason. I don't know how I ended up here, or how I became this, but I knew one thing, I was alone up here with no way down. And then I just realized something. This has got to be some sort of dream. So, I tried to flap the little wings I had, but no way they were picking me off the ground. And then I just realized, the ground I was standing on wasn't really ground at all. I was standing on top of a cloud. I thought it was weird. I usually didn't dream like this before, but this is a dream after all. "Okay," I told myself. "Focus, Danny. Focus." I could feel my wings flapping but not getting off this cloud. But then I was almost hit by a bolt of lightning. "WHOA!!" I shouted. I then looked up at the clouds. I then put one of the hooves I had to my chest and said, "Whoa. That was close. Good thing this isn't real, or else I could've gotten seriously hurt." Then I was struck by lightning. "OW!!" That really hurt. But then I just realized something. That hurt? How could it have... I then did a quick test to make sure. If this wasn't a dream, I had to make sure. But I didn't have fingers to pinch myself. So I did the next best thing. I had to bite myself. And it really hurt. "OW!" I shouted. And then I came to a conclusion. This wasn't a dream at all. I was a little winged horse on a cloud, high high up, and I was close to a storm. I then did the logical thing to do. I cried out for help. "Help! Help! Someone get me down from here!" But then another bolt of lightning almost hit me. This time, a small part of the cloud I was on was gone. Basically, there was two-thirds left of it. "Uh oh. HELP!! Someone help me!" But then another bolt took out another third, and I almost fell off the cloud. I was hanging off what was left of the cloud. I couldn't hang onto it forever. But then the lightning bolt hit my left hoof. "OW!!" It really hurt. Now, I was hanging off the small cloud by my right hoof. I was going to fall and die as a small horse. I was hanging onto for dear life, and I was going to die soon. Nobody was around to help me. I wasn't going to live my life anymore. If things weren't bad enough, the lightning bolt destroyed the last part of the cloud, and I fell, screaming. This was it for me. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!" I screamed. I thought my life ended, but something caught me. Something soft. "I gotcha!" said a raspy girl voice. I looked up, and saw another horse, bigger than me. She had cyan blue fur and magenta colored eyes. I looked up at her mane, and saw that it was the color of a rainbow. "You really shouldn't be up in the clouds on a stormy night. Especially tonight." "Wh-what?" I asked, confusedly. She then set me down, and grabbed my left hoof. She then said, "Boy, that doesn't look good. I better getcha to the hospital. Hang on, I'll have you there in 10 seconds flat." She then picked me up, and she flew me to a hospital. I was brought to the hospital. A nice, white horse was putting some bandages where I was struck by lightning. Although, I was to stay over night. Although, that one horse with the rainbow mane came up to me and she wanted me to ask me some questions. "Alright, kid," she said to me. "What were you doing up there in the middle of a storm anyhow? Were ya trying to get yourself seriously hurt." "I... I don't know how I got up there," I said. "In fact, I wasn't like this before." "Whatcha talkin' 'bout?" she asked. "I... I was a completely different species before I ended up like this," I said to her. "Oh, you probably wouldn't believe me even if I told you the truth." "Now, what makes you think that?" she asked. "C'mon, what makes you think I wouldn't believe you?" "Because I was actually born a human," I told her. I looked towards her and she was giving me a confused look. "A human?" she asked. "I have never heard of humans before. But, perhaps Twilight has. How about tomorrow, I take you to her and perhaps we'll get to the bottom of this?" "Okay," I said. I then yawned, rubbing my eye with a hoof. "I'm really tired anyway. Maybe..." "Get some sleep, kid," she told me. "I'll see you tomorrow." She seems like a nice horse. I really hope I wake up a human again. Although, it might be better off if I was here than with my aunt and uncle.