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I woke up to find myself wrapped in such soft blankets. I had no idea of my surroundings, but I felt safe and warm.
My mismatched eyes darted open to find myself staring into the faces of two ponies. I shrieked, fell off the bed, and scrambled to get to my feet. The ponies looked concerned, and the pony I had met earlier cooed soothing words to me, calming me down immensely. The two ponies were speaking to one another in that same strange unknown language that I had heard the pink-maned pony use before. She was speaking in such a soft tone that I wondered how the other pony could even understand her. The other pony was quite different from the yellow one.
It was of a purple hue, and a little bit slimmer than the other. It had a shorter mane than the other pony, with cute bangs in the front, half concealing... the horn it had on its forehead! Sooo... a unicorn? I turned to the other pony, who had... wings? Wha? I must have hit my head pretty hard or something. Maybe I was in some freak dream, and had fallen into a coma. That would explain my amnesia anyway. And with that, my memories stayed even more firmly locked into place.
I was whisked out of my musings as the purple... thing looked towards me more intently, meeting my eyes.
I began to sweat with nervousness as it spoke," gvfbd shdbd hwgdwd whjdbwjhd wdhhsh jhbhbjdc dhcdhcbhd jc sdc ds c sdc hbehegvdbc sdhcdgjvwjbweh?" It held out a hoof, and from its voice, I guessed that it was also female.
"Uhhhh.... I don't understand." I answered, a confused, and fearful look on my face. Unfased, the pony creature closed her eyes and a glowing magenta aurora seemed to glow from her horn, and when she opened them, an ethereal light seemed to glow from them as she concerntrated the... stuff into a ball and shot it at me.
Before I could scream, the stuff, for which I was later to find out was magic, engulfed me and drowned out all my senses for what seemed like eternity, but realistically was probably merely a few seconds. As the spell faded, all my senses came slowly back and I sluggishly sat up, for I had somehow fallen to the floor again.
Rubbing my sore head, I re-took in my surroundings and looked about me. The purple unicorn thingie looked back at me with worried purple eyes, along with the other pony, who seemed even more frantic than the other.
"Are you ok?" asked the purple one.
I was about to say indignantly that of COURSE I was not ok, but I stopped as I realized that I could understand the pony's dialect.
"H-hey! I can understand you!" was all I could say.
"Well," the purple pony said with a satisfied smirk," I put a spell on you so that you could understand our language. It doesn't last forever, but we can work that out later. I'm Twilight Sparkle, by the way." she re-held out her hoof in a friendly manner.
"I-I..." I couldn't speak very coherently at the moment, trying to process this new bit of information, but I managed to raise my hand and shake the pony's hoof. How she could stand on three limbs without falling was a mystery to me, but then again, wasn't everything?And did she just say magic?
"And this here is one of my most closest friends, Fluttershy." Fluttershy cast a motherly glance towards me before hiding behind her mane of long pink hair. She wasn't shy not so long ago. "She's the kindest pony around, and loves to take care of animals. And you are?"
I bit my lip for a moment, wondering how I was going to break it to them.
"Weuuullll... I-I... don't actually know who I am..." I looked down nervously at my shoes," but umm, if it helps, I do know that I'm a human." at least I could remember my race.
"Human?" Twilight asked."That sounds like a myth, actually.Hmmmm.... and you can't remember who you are, you say?" I hung my head, a bright tinge in my cheeks. "Don't worry, I'm sure there's an explanation for this. I'll just take you home and we'll pour over my books to see if we can find an answer, alright?" Twilight Sparkle gave me a kind look, and it made me feel an eensy weensy bit better. I don't know how I missed the rising exitement in the purple pony's eyes.
"O-ok."
"W-wait." the sound was so soft that I wouldn't have caught the words if Twilight hadn't suddenly grown quiet, turning her full attention to Fluttershy."I-I want to... spent time with..." Twilight nodded in understanding, and then turned her attention back towards me.
"Or do you want to spend time with Fluttershy?" I was mildly surprised that she wanted my opinion on this matter.
Glancing at Fluttershy I said, "Well, I'd like to get things straightened out first..." Fluttershy looked downcast, but then put on a brave face, which made me inwardly breath out a sigh of relief.
"That's ok, but I'll come visit? I-I mean, i-if that's ok with you?'' She peered at me behind her locks of beautiful pastel pink hair.
"It's a deal."
"Pinkie Promise?" she held out a hoof to shake.
"Pinkie Promise...?'' I asked... what was that, some kind of weird ritual?
Fluttershy let out a soft, tinkling laugh at my confusion.
"Cross me heart, and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye."
After still seeing the continued baffled look on my face, Twilight elaborated, holding back a laugh," It's a kind of promise that you can never, ever break, unless you want Pinkie Pie to attack. You're supposed to repeat after Fluttershy." I looked back and forth between them, wondering if this was a joke. It didn't help that Twilight was now giggling.
Sighing, hoping that I wouldn't ever regret this, I repeated,"Cross my... heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." I then smiled, as a memory popped into my head."Hey! I just remembered! Where I come from, we have something similar... except it went like..." and then the memory left as fast as it came."Well, I thought I remembered."
Noticing the look of oncoming depression, Fluttershy nudged me and Twilight out her cottage door, so that we could get onto our research faster. I thanked her kindly, and ran to catch up with Twilight, who was trotting at a brisk pace, the prospect of a new research project giving her wings.
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When we entered what Twilight told me was called Ponyville, we came across all these technicolor ponies, and I couldn't help but stare. I wasn't alone however, because all the ponies couldn't help looking at me either. Actually, I was doing a better job because there was a lot of whispering about me and not to mention pointing, which was getting really uncomfortable.
A pink pony with bright, pouffy, curly hair came bouncing up to us, an impossibly huge smile on her face(I assumed it was a girl anyway).
"Hiya Twilight! How ya doing?" she beamed, all bright and cute.
And then she got a glimpse of me. I was slouching as much as possible, and hiding a little behind Twilight, so she hadn't spotted me at first sight, but when she did, her reaction was unexpected. She gasped comically, her body going all stiff, and then after a few seconds she bounded away so quickly that I stood there, surprised. She was a really fast pony...
And Twilight laughed."She had the same reaction when I first came to Ponyville."
"Who is she?" I asked, still baffled by the strange pony's reaction.
"That, my friend, is none other than the amazing Pinkie Pie, one eccentric pony who loves to throw parties. Did you notice the cutie mark on her flank?"
"A what?" I asked, even more confused. My head was really beginning to throb again.
"Oh, sorry! I forgot that there's so much you don't know." Twilight looked at me with a sheepish espression.
"Thanks." sarcasm dripped from my voice. It's nice to be reminded of my cluelessness.
"Sorry." Twilight looked like she meant it, and so I mentally forgave her as she went on,"A cutie mark is what everypony get's once they find their secret talent. It can be anything, but it has to be what makes you unique from everypony else. Some cutie marks run in the family though, and get passed down, generation to generation. Pinkie Pie's cutie mark is that of three balloons, which shows her love of partying, and it's also a symbol of her talent at throwing them."
Cutie marks? Special talent? But what if-?
"But what if yo had more than one talent?" I asked. "Isn't having a cutie mark just limiting everyone? Who made this system, anywho?"
"Princess Celestia." Twilight pronounced proudly. They had a monarchy here? How strange... I can almost recall what system of government where I came from had. A-a... well, it starts with a d anyway. "And having a cutie mark doesn't mean that you're limited. You may be classified with a certain talent, but you still can have others as well, it's just that your cutie mark talent becomes a huge part of who you are, and makes sure you have a place where you belong. Pinkie Pie's cutie mark is what gave her a job at the bakery shop in town, Sugarcube Corner. It's an organized system that makes it so that nopony gets left behind in Equestria." This caused me to raise my eyebrows a little bit... still sounds like limiting to me.
"Sooo, what's your cutie mark then?" I was curious to see what kind of special talent a smart, uh, pony like her would have.
She stopped abruptly, and gave me a full view of her purple flank. There was a large pink star, with a smaller one behind it, and five different smaller white stars surrounding it.
"So your talent has to do with stars? That's cool, I guess." I shrugged, a little dissapointed.
Twilight looked slightly offended and put out as she answered indignantly,"It's magic!" she stamped her front hoof for emphasis.
How did stars indicate magic? Oh nevermind! Nothing made sense so far anyway-Oh! Magic!
"You can do magic!" it was a statement, however incredulous."That's so awesome!" with all the new things I discovered, I completely forgot about that one.
"Well, yeah, I am a unicorn you know." She gave me a smirk when she saw the joyful look upon my face.
"Unicorns DO exist! And then... so that means Fluttershy is a-"
" Pegasus." Twilight helpfully provided, gazing at me with curiosity, gouging my reaction.
She began to look at me like a bug under a magnifying glass, and I became a little more uncomfortable. What I didn't realize was that Twilight loved to discover new things and ideas, and that she was trying her absolute best to hold back on her exitement to turn me into a test subject... not just yet, anyway. It was a good thing that I didn't know then and there, because I wouldn've probably ran off to find some other pony to help me, and unfortuantely, Twilight is the only pony who can help me, being one of the smartest ponies in all of Equestria.
I gazed back at where Pinkie Pie had stood only minutes ago, and then something resurfaced.
"Wait... Pinkie Pie? Pinkie Pie... Oh, so SHE made up the Pinkie Promise?!" that strange pony WOULD make up something like that.
"Took you long enough to figure that out." Twilight teased, as we started moving again."But yes, she was the one who made it up. Be careful with those kind of promises, though, because like I mentioned earlier, you don't want to break one, lest you suffer the wrath of its creator.'' she gave such a foreboding look that I actually had chills run up and down my spine." Oh look! We're here." we stood in front of a large, overgrown tree.
I didn't see how this was her house, and was about to say as much when I noticed the door, and the windows, not to mention the balcony high above our heads. Who lives in a tree under the sky? T-W-I-L-I-G-H-T S-P-A-R-K-L-E! Now where in the world did that come from? I mentally shook myself as I followed my new friend inside.