"so start talking!" Twilight yelled at the bipedal fox.
"yeah, or I'm gonna have to make you start talking!" Rainbow Dash threatened while flying just above the ground, getting in James's face.
James struggled to get out. "Zoro...zoroark! 'Let...let me out!' " James yelled.
"I know you want me to let you go, but I won't until you agree to talk." Twilight said to the Fox.
"twilight, I don't think the poor darling can speak at all!" Rarity chimed.
"that's what I'm trying to say! All it says is it's name!" Pinkie said, bouncing around a bit.
Twilight sighs, and let's the bipedal fox go. James hits through ground with a light thud.
"Zoroark. ' Thank you' James said to twilight. James tried to stand up, before yelping in pain. He clutched his left leg. 'Gaah! Still must be sprained, if not even worse then before' James thought. Fluttershy quickly saw this and rushed towards James.
"Oh my! He really is hurt!" She said, inspecting James leg. "Oh, you poor, poor thing!" She said. James looked around and saw a very sturdy stick next to him. He grabbed the stick and slowly stood up, using the stick as a crutch. 'Easy now, easy does it' James thought.
"We should really get him some help." Fluttershy said, looking worried.
Twilight nodded. "Maybe it can't speak, but maybe it can understand us. Nod your head if you do." She told James. James nodded. "Zoro, zoroark. 'I can understand you' " he said
"I can't understand you at all. All I can hear you say is zoro and zoroark." Twilight said.
"well I reckon this thing is trying to take us for a fool. It can understand us, but can't speak?" AJ asked.
"It does sound rather far fetched" rarity said. James facepalms and sighs. 'why don't they know that I am speaking in poke talk.'
"Just... try to not fall into anypony else's homes. Let's go girls!" Twilight yelled, turning around and walking away. The others follow twilight. James hobbles after them.
"Um, twilight, should it be following us?" Fluttershy asked. Twilight stopped, turned around and saw the Fox hobbling after them. "We never told it to. Why are you following us?" Twilight asked. James leaned against the stick and waved his claws around in a game of charades.
"Why don't you come with us. Can you write?" Twilight asked. James nods towards twilight.
"Then follow us, but don't cause any trouble." Twilight said sternly. James nods.
"I don't think he will." Fluttershy said, rubbing her self affectionately on James, causing him to blush a little.
"I know it's cute an all how your like that with the animals and such, but why do ya do that?" AJ asked.
"To show that I care!" Fluttershy said, trotting alongside James. A idea popped into James's head.
"Zoro! 'Wait!' He barks. Twilight rolls her eyes. "He sure is talkative!" Pinkie said.
"Sorta like you." AJ retorted. James stops hobbling and growls to get their attention. "Zoroark!" 'Just listen to me!"
"look, whatever you are, we don't know what you are trying to say, so we're heading to me place where you can write what you're trying to say." Twilight said.
"he seems a bit angry!" Pinkie said as she appeared on James's back, pointing at his angry face. James bent down and uses a claw to write in a patch of dirt. Twilight was confused at what the bipedal fox was doing.
"what is it doing?" Rarity asked, looking a bit disgusted at what the Fox was doing.
"I'm not sure. This. creature, whatever it is, is very strange." Twilight said. James wrote, as best as he could, in the dirt "i think I know how I can communicate with you." When he was done writing that, he looks at twilight. Twilight gasps as she reads the message. "wow it CAN write! But how can you communicate?" Twilight asked, looking confused.
James writes the word "watch" and closeness eyes and concentrates, and a few moments later he becomes a earth pony version of himself with a cutie mark of purple flames. Twilight gasps at what she sees.
"H-how!?" Twilight yelled, all her studies of mysterious creatures and magic thrown out the window.
"it's...it's a...a" fluttershy stuttered.
"A pony!" AJ finished. James looked at his new body. "Test, test, one two." James said, his voice sounding like his own. "Any way, hello" he said. Rarity's eyes ruled to the back of her head as she faints. RD's mouth drops open. Fluttershy 'eeped' and hid behind her mane. AJ's eyes narrowed as she and RD got in James's face. And twilight was speechless.
"How did y'all did that!?" She yells. James rolls his eyes at rarity when she fainted, then turns towards AJ.
"To answer your question, I used illusions" James said. Pinkie giggled. "What are you surprised about? I can do that!" She said as she turned into a pink pony version of James. Twilight shook her head. "Thats the thing, HE did it." She said. Fluttershy looked at James with worried look.
"Do... does your leg still hurt?* fluttershy whispered. James looked at the leg that was hurting. "It hurts a little, but not as much as before" James said.
"twilight, since he can talk now, I'm going to take him to my cottage. You need to stay off that leg, okay?" Fluttershy said, looking worried at James. James looks at fluttershy and nods. Fluttershy walks closer to James. "you can lean on me so you don't have to walk on your injured leg." She said, blushing a little and hiding her face behind her mane. "Wh-what's your name?" Fluttershy stammered.
James leaned against fluttershy. "Thank you. And for the name, it's shadow mark." James sighed. Fluttershy smiles at James. "Thats a nice name." She said, leading James towards her cottage. As they walk towards fluttershy's home, James winces with each step, but keeps going.
After a long slow walk, do to James's injuries, James and fluttershy make it to her cottage. As they walk in fluttershy leads James to the couch.
"you just lay on the couch, and don't you move a muscle, okay? You need your rest. You must have quite a headache from falling on your head." She said. James nods and moves onto the couch. "Yea, that I do." James yawned. Fluttershy gasps, and runs around her house grabbing a cold compress and some pillows, and when she finally heads back to the couch, she saw that James has fallen asleep. After adjusting the pillows and putting on the cold compress on James head, she smiles and strokes his mane, which causes a smiles to form on James muzzle. "Sleep well." Fluttershy whispered. Fluttershy then goes into the kitchen to make supper. 'I hope he gets well' fluttershy thought, then smiled.
TO BE CONTINUED