Trixie was towing her traveling stage and home behind her along a path that ran parallel to the Everfree Forest, thinking about what she did not a week ago.
How could I have been so foalish? She asked herself mentally, I could have avoided this situation if I hadn't lied in the first place. Trixie sighed. Since her humiliation after the Ursa Minor incident two months ago, her thoughts were consumed with revenge on the lavender unicorn that humiliated her, even going so far as to hunt down an ancient artifact that was supposedly cursed just to get the revenge she wanted so badly. Even though Trixie saw the error in her ways after losing in a magic duel, she felt alone, that fact that she really was alone didn't help the fact.
Maybe I should get a pet or something, she mused. I'll at least have something to take my thoughts away from my constant travels somewhat.
A lengthy span of time passed where nothing but the sound of her cart's wheels on the ground was the only noise present, until she heard a light rustling in the brush to her immediate right.
She stopped dead in her tracks. "Who's there?" She asked. No response "Show yourself, Trixie already knows you're there."
More rustling, Trixie charged her horn, preparing to cast a spell if necessary, the rustling was louder, her muscles tensed up. It was a rabbit, an ordinary rabbit. Trixie sighed.
"You know it's not nice to scare ponies like that, right?" She asked it, the little rabbit nodded its head. "Good, now run along." And the rabbit did just that. Trixie also left the premises, glad that something snapped her from her thoughts of loneliness. Trixie grunted as she walked, it felt as if her cart had gotten heavier since she stopped. After ten minutes of pulling her now obviously heavier cart she stopped and unhooked herself.
"There is no way I was imagining that weight." she told herself, gasping slightly from the physical effort. After regaining her breath Trixie went to the back of her cart to find the door's lock open, as if somepony had unlocked it and forgot to put it back correctly. Her curiosity perked, she magicked the lock off the door and opened said door to find the most bizarre sight she could have imagined. Even with her extensive knowledge of almost every creature in Equestria and its surrounding countries she had no idea what the creature that was lying on her bed even was! It had little to no fur besides its mane, had hind legs far longer than it's forelegs, suggesting that it was bipedal and odd enough was wearing a set of pristine and clean clothes.
Minutes passed with the creature and Trixie staring at each other, it's metallic silver eyes alluring in a cute animal type of way.
"Err-Hi?" said a masculine voice.
Trixie furrowed her brow, and looked behind her, finding nopony, surely she hadn't just heard this creature speak.
"I said, hello."
Trixie rubbed her head with a hoof, did she hit her head? Was she imagining this?
"I heard you speak, so I know you understand me." It said.
Trixie's jaw dropped, there was no denying it any longer, this new creature was smart enough to get into her locked cart without breaking the lock and could even speak! If that's the case than maybe it's civilized and can give her the information on what it is.
"You... are correct. Trixie was speaking earlier." She said in a slightly shaky voice.
"Good to hear, I guess." it said. "I assume you don't know what I am since I don't know what you are?"
"You are... correct again."
"I'll start with what I am, and that's a human."
"Human? What's a human?"
The human groaned and put one of its appendages on its face in an 'are you serious?' fashion. "You didn't just ask that now, did you?" He asked. Trixie was about to retort when it raised its appendage and silenced her. Odd. She didn't have the intention to stop talking. "Never mind. I'll explain exactly what a human is." It paused, "Humans are bipedal, mammal, homo sapiens that are at the top of the food chain of the planet Earth, humans aren't the strongest physically but we have incredibly advanced technology that we use against... really everything, other species, our planet..." His face darkened "and each other" he spat.
Silence prevailed after the human finished his explanation. Trixie was never one to be completely afraid of another, unless it was a predator, but she was terrified of this... human just from an explanation of what they are and what they have.
The human sighed and raised it's appendage yet again and Trixie found her hooves stuck to the ground. Pulling back she tried to break free of whatever got a hold of her until she noticed the faint white glow around the end of the humans appendage.
"You can use magic?!?!" She shouted. "That's impossible! Only unicorns like Trixie can use magic!"
"Not in my case it seems." It said. "Anyways, now that I've explained what I am, can you explain exactly what you are, because to me you look like a miniature horse,"
Trixie snorted in outrage at the insult of being called a horse, "First, Trixie is not a horse, the Saddle Arabians are horses, and second Trixie is a unicorn pony." Brief and to the point, just how Trixie liked it.
The human glanced up and saw her horn, "So you are." the corners of his mouth raised the slightest bit. "I'd never had guessed when I saw a colorful equine that it would be able to speak, use magic and would be an example of Greek mythology. Interesting..."
The way this human was staring at Trixie caused some anxiety, it was like the human was dissecting her just by looking at her. She shuddered, wishing she wasn't still trapped.
The human cocked it's head to the side, much like a confused dog. "Something wrong?"
"Yes!" Trixie shouted. "There is most definitely something wrong here!"
"Oh really?" He mussed with that same half smirk "Pray tell, what is so wrong?"
"Oh, nothing really, besides the fact that you're restraining Trixie to the ground and studying Trixie as if she was some new plaything!" She clapped her hooves over her mouth regretting her choice of words. She gave this human an idea of what to do with her, and it scared her. Chuckling. He was chuckling! '"A-and w-what is so f-funny?" Trixie stuttered, images of what this human could do to her with just a spell running amok inside her skull.
"Oh nothing really, just the fact that you're wrong with both of those assessments, because I released you during your short explanation and I was just comparing how you- Hey!" As soon as Trixie heard that she had already been released she bolted in the opposite direction, forget trying to fight the human, its magic was far stronger because it got past her Control Magic-Ward as if it was nothing. She just continued to gallop away as fast as she possibly could until she was stopped dead in her tracks by something that got a hold of her tail.
"Let Trixie go!" She shouted and looked back to find a manticore holding her tail. The world stopped and Trixie's heart too, her eyes shrunk to pinpricks and a piercing scream ended the pause in time. The manticore raised a clawed lion paw in the air, the look in it's eye showing it's hunger and blood lust. Trixie closed her eyes, hoping that it would be quick. But it never came, instead she heard a war cry.
Trixie opened her eyes to find the human pounding down the trail towards them, a deep scowl on his face.
As if this wasn't bad enough. Trixie thought. However, instead of attacking the two of them as Trixie expected he jumped high into the air and landed a kick in the manticore snout, causing the manticore to fly back several hundred feet which in turn sent Trixie flying with it. Trixie's head collided with something very hard and solid, could have been a tree, could have been a rock, she didn't know. All she knew was that her vision was fading and the manticore was fighting the human and losing.
The final blow landed and the manticore fell, Trixie didn't know if it was dead or just unconscious. The last thing Trixie saw before losing all of her vision was the human striding towards her, his shirt torn, covered in blood and had a concerned look on his face.