//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // Story: The Fish and Chippery // by Blossomfalll //------------------------------// The pony had taken me to a small clinic, and gotten my leg patched up, then took me a police station. I was still trying to talk to him. It was very strange how I could understand him, yet he couldn't me, but then again my mouth had just gotten cooky and i still couldn't form the right sounds. I yawned realizing I was really tired again, and unwillingly fell asleep. I woke up the next day, nearly in the morning with the sun shining in my eyes. "Ah.. That was a odd dream." I said, or at least I thought I said. I sat up yawning and looked to the side. Why was I behind bars?!? I asked myself suddenly, and then it hit me. That was not a dream at all, if it were it wouldn't have been so vivid! Slowly I bring my gaze down to my hands. I yelp, when I see that they are still hooves. I didn't want hooves, I wanted my fingers back! To be able to pick things up. To go back.. Home.... I thought, sniffling. Would I ever get back home? I silently cried. What had I done to deserve this? To become a... PONY BABY! I thought letting out a whimper of frustration. Somebody came in, I realised to them I must have really sounded like a baby. "Aww poor baby. Are you hungry?" She said, in baby talk, and cooed. I think she was a nurse, that's where I must be, some type of orphanage or something in a hospital. I thought, looking around and seeing other cribs. She came closer to me and I looked at what she was carrying in her mouth. It was a baby bottle. Even though I was hungry, I silently prayed she wasn't coming to feed me with it. She was. She stuck it right in my mouth and to my protest, wouldn't take it out, I tried closing my mouth, but that jus got milk on me. Giving up, I started sucking on it, and found it wasn't half bad. It was sort of creamy, and rich. I still didn't like that it was out of a bottle, but I couldn't do anything about it, now could I? If I'm stuck here forever... At least I'll grow up eventually.. Right?.. I thought, hoping that I wouldn't be. The milk seemed to have an calming effect on me, I didn't feel so worked up anymore. Odd... She stopped feeding me and smiled. "There now see? You're safe here, I'm not going to hurt you, and neither will anybody else." Why should I believe that? After all I was stuck in a land of... Aliens... I gazed up at the pony and she smiled again and walked away. I waited for her to get out the door and looked around at the crib bars. If I'm right, this is one of those cribs you can just push down, I know escaping is useless, after all I am stuck in this helpless body, but I do want a chance to look around. For all I know, I'll be stuck like this for the rest of my life! I hesitantly get up on two legs, wobbling, and force the crib wall bars down, after some effort. I look around and climb down, wondering how I held on to the edge with hooves. No reason to question though, this whole thing is impossible. I land flat on my body and start crawling towards the door, which to my luck had been left open. I slowly come out the door. Time to observe this new world. When I got out of the hospital, I looked around. Perhaps I was hallucinating, but it felt too... Real. Scurrying across cobblestone I crawled as fast as I could, which amazed me, because how could a pony crawl? Watching other ponies walk towards me, I hurried into a bush. I was quite tired even though I only crawled for a few minutes, and didn't get very far. I sit down to rest and start thinking about home. Here I was in a strange world, one that I've never even heard about! What would my family think? My friends? I break out crying. I rarely cry. Why was I crying? Why was I getting tired so easily? To my horror I realise my mind was turning baby-like too, not just my body, of course my body though, was a white foal with purple hair. A foal as in a baby pony. If I was stuck here I'd have to grow up all over again. Go to kindergarten again. Do everything I've done, again! But this time without the people I loved.