Chapter 2
Welcome to Equestria
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I see nothing but darkness, I think to myself, am I dead? I hear a chirping bird in the distance and wind in the trees. I open my eyes slowly to see a beaming sun above me which almost blinds me instantly. Then I hear voices, girl voices, who's that I wonder.
I am too weak to move or to talk and then I hear more voices. I gather enough strength to turn and look to my left and I see a blue and yellow moving blurry figures. I finally get up slowly, and walk limply toward the noises to see if there is someone who can help me.
I decide to get closer to see what they were. I get about 10 meters away behind a tree, quiet as can be, and stop and drop my mouth in realization, that the two figures are, PONIES? Where am I?!
When I was startled at that notice I stepped on a stick and it broke loudly enough for anyone to hear and I freeze in sheer horror. The winged-ponies, Pegasi I guess, stopped talking, the yellow one cowered up and the blue one said “Who’s there!? Show yourself!” I start shaking with fear because I’m not sure if these pegasi are mean to humans.
I hear her wings flap and she flies toward my direction and I just sit there in a crouched position hiding my head crying a little because of fear of going to be hurt or worse. Peering up I see the yellow one with the pink mane looking at me and she says “Hello, what creature are you?” I stay quiet and stare at her with tears of fear in my eyes. She says “Don’t be scared I won’t hurt you.” The blue one flies over and I hide myself once more. The yellow one says “Let me introduce our selves.” I peek up at them. “This is Rainbow-Dash.” She points to the blue pegasi. “And I’m Fluttershy.” She smiles at me. I look at them and I quietly whisper “My name is Dean.” Fluttershy looks at me, “Is that the sound you make? A small whisper?” I say a little louder, “No, I said My name is Dean, Dean Yarlo.”
They look at me curiously and surprised that I can talk and understand them. “I jumped into a portal from my world and it brought me here, where am I? What is this world called” Rainbow-Dash says in freaked out voice “Y-you can talk? What are you?” I say “I am a human, haven’t you seen one before? We are everywhere.”
Fluttershy says quietly “Well the portal you must’ve jumped into took you into our world, Equestria, the town you are in is named Ponyvi-” Rainbow-Dash stops her by saying “Why should Dean know what this place is, I don’t trust him” Fluttershy looks down at me and says, “Well he is a scared, uh whatever he is-” “Human.” I interrupt. “Human, okay well he is scared and doesn’t know where he is at.” The blue pegasi looks at her “Well he does look sad. Come with us Dean we will take you to Ponyville.”
I stand up slowly on my feet and the watch me in awe. Fluttershy says “Wow you even stand on two feet and you're tall!” “Is that bad? I’m only 5’11” “No its okay we sometimes stand on two feet to reach something, but we really can’t walk on two feet which stinks.”
So we head off to PonyVille and I pull out my water bottle from my pack and take a swig and then pull out a Beef Stick, “What’s that?” Rainbow-Dash asks. “It’s a beef stick, called a slim-jim.” “Slim-jim?” “It’s made of beef, you know cow meat.” Fluttershy stops and looks at me. “Y-You’re a C-carnivore?” “No No, I am an Omnivore I eat plants too like you guys its just I prefer beef, but I am running low I have 2 left now. Rainbow-Dash sniffs it then coughs a little bit. “Whoa, thats a lot of salt!” Fluttershy says in a scared tone, “S-so you won’t eat us?”
“Eat a pony? Eww! Not only is that just plain wrong it’s plain gross! Where I come from we don’t eat ponies we feed them and let our children ride their back and we travel on them.” “So you don’t eat us?” “No.” Fluttershy sighs of relief.
We walk to Ponyville and it’s a magnificent small village full of well ponies of course and pause. They continue walking and then stop to look at me. I look down at the ground and say “I am not sure if I want to go in the village. I am a bit scared of what they might think.” Rainbow-dash says “Come on It’s not gonna be horrible, they’ll think you’re something from the forest, they won’t pay you no mind since you’re with me and Flutters.” “Okay.” I say nervously, Fluttershy comes to me and pats my back with her hoof and says “don’t worry you’ll be okay, I’ll make sure of that.” I smile at her and she smiles back, I glance over at Rainbow-Dash, she smiles back. I say in a confident tone, “Let’s Go!”
As we walk into town I feel eyes watching me so look down not looking at anyone, err pony. I hear whispering about something, not sure of what though, but I suspect it’s me. We continue through the village and I ask quietly, “Where are we going, I don’t want to be here anymore, I’m scared.” Rainbow-Dash looks at me and says “Nobody is going to mess with you and we are going to the library to see if Twilight knows anything about, what did you say you were?” “Human.” “Okay well let’s go see if she knows anything.” I look around and say “Okay.”
Finally we get to the library and Rainbow-Dash knocks on the door and a small dragon opens the door, which makes me jump out of my skin. He looks at me and says “Who and what is that?” Rainbow-Dash says “Well he says he is a human, though we are not sure what a human is.” The small dragon turns to the blue pegasus and says “Well, I’ve never seen or heard of a human, maybe Twilight-Sparkle knows. I think inside my head, What is up with these names? Fluttershy, Rainbow-dash, and Twilight-Sparkle, those are strange names.
I walk into the large tree library and a purple pony walks into the room and looks at me really dumbfounded and says “What and who is that?” Rainbow-Dash says “Well, she doesn’t know hmm..” Twilight looks at me intently and says “I’m sorry but I have no idea what that is.”
I start getting irritated at the fact nobody freaking know what a human is, “I am a human okay! I talk and walk on two feet and I am from a totally different freaking dimension! I am scared beyond belief because I don’t understand why ponies can talk and build societies and read, and..and.. AGH!!! I should’ve never jumped in that stupid portal!”
I run out frustrated so much I could pop. I run toward a tree and climb up it and lay up there. Argh I can’t understand what this place is! This place is insane! Ponies running the place? This is all too confusing, I should just go away for a while. Then I hear a voice below but I ignore it. “Hey! Creature in the tree!” I yell back down “I am not a Creature, I am a Human!.” “Y’all can talk?”
I look down and see an orange pony with a cowboy hat and a fully pink pony, I wonder what their names are. “Yes I can talk Humans can talk.” The pink one says without taking a single breath, “Well I’ve never seen a human before, where are you from, how’d you get here, why are you up in a tr-” The orange pony puts her hoof on her mouth and says “Hush now and take a breath”
The pink takes a huge breath and lets it out, the pink one is a bit bonkers it seems. The pink one says “My name is Pinkie Pie and She is AppleJack.” Pinkie Pie, had a feeling her name had to do something with pink. AppleJack sounds like she is from the south. “Why don’t y’all come down and introduce yourself.” I shake my head “No. I don’t want to be here, this place is driving me crazy!”
I look out toward the library and see a white pony with purple hair walking toward this way followed by the other 3 ponies. I groan and lay back wiping my face. Fluttershy looks up at me and says “Please, come down.” I look down at her and she looks so sad that I just can’t say no. To my displeasure I climb down and stand there, arms crossed. The shy pony smiles at me, “Thank you.” I fake smile back, then frown again. “You want me to explain my life story don’t you?” They all look at each other and look back and nod. I sigh and begin my story
(end of chapter two)