Everfree Forest, 7 Hours Later
Waking up in a forest is one thing, but to wake up in a forest with a noose around my neck and part of the scaffolding is a completely different matter. How the hell did I get here and how come I am not back at the prison with my dead body swinging in the wind like a pinata.
As I got off the ground I looked around to survey my surroundings. "Ok...strange forest...check, no land marks...check, my robes..." I looked down to see that it is still completely intact. "a big check on that....yea..I ready for anything now."
A forest like I have never seen, it is like a cross between your regular forest with tall trees that prevent sunlight from touching the floor mixed into a jungle, the trees all slanted in different angles, making it look ancient and haunting, that unholy aura feeling because of the low hanging fog and the snow that still covers most of the grass and dirt.
"Well...this is not what I expected heaven or hell to look like....or maybe I am dreaming....yea thats it, I am still in my prison cell asleep...this is all a dream..." as I said that I go face first into a tree branch, the pain and sudden jolt was enough to bring me out of my stupor state, rubbing my face to make sure the branch didn't break my nose or give me any scrapes.
"Okay....maybe not a dream....stupid tree branch..." I said, noticing that most tree's back home are straight up Evergreen trees, these tree's look more like dying willow trees, creepy enough to know that this place is haunted by something or someone.
"So...where the hell am I? I know this is not the forest that I am used to seeing...and I am sure as hell know that I am not dreaming...still not sure what that ball of white light did to me...well...besides teleporting me away...hmmm." I said, scratching my chin, thinking deeply now.
"Teleporting...well...Celestia was not at the mirror before my supposed execution...so maybe she was thinking of a way to save me...yea...yea that is it...she teleported me...but to where? I think she doesn't know my realms landmasses...so she couldn't have teleported me outside of the capital...no no no....something else...maybe...maybe her spell failed and only got me somewhere far...far enough out of the capital...hopefully far from the capital....rather not go back to prison again."
As I kept travelling in the forest/jungle whatever the hell it is, I noticed that the snow is getting thinner and that the trees look more alive than dead a few minutes ago, which can only mean that whatever place I am walk to must be more alive than this place.
"Finally...some sunlight...fresh air...hell maybe even a bakery will do...I can go for a nice loaf of bread right about now." I said, starting to run out of the forest, only to trip on a tree root and land face first into a patch of blue flowers.
"Owwwwww......the hell did I just fall in?" I said, dusting myself off, plucking the strange blue flower by the stem. Looking it over, it appears to be just a normal blue flower with dots over the leaves, which gives me the idea that this is like poison ivy, but only a pretty flower.
"Oh you got to be shitting me...poison ivy flowers...well...if this kills me than on my tombstone would say 'Killed by pretty flowers'...not a very manly way to die..." I said groaning, now fearing I just fell into lethal plants.
I take a look at myself, looking for any sign of what poisonous plant did to me, and to my luck it seems it is not fast acting, which gives me a small hope that I can find a cure before I die from it, or otherwise have some horrible outcome where I am running around butt ass naked into the local population...and fearing that I get captured and sent back to jail.
"At least its not fast acting....well...I guess I will just take a few and find a cure....rather not be dead...living is so much fun...now...to get out of this forest, and find any sort of settlement...I can care less now if it has soldiers at it or not...as long as I don't die from these stupid blue flowers...I can give a damn." I said, quickly picking up a few of the blue flowers before running off to the forests edge, hoping to find a village nearby.
After running for almost an hour, sprinting, than crashing again into another branch, than sprinting again while holding my nose, I finally got out of the forest, only to be met with the strangest sight I have most likely ever seen, a settlement was there, but all the houses were upside down, floating in the air, the floor was a massive checkerboard, pink rainclouds raining some dark colored liquid, and their was buffalo dancing in frilly dresses.....and the first thought that came to my head was....
"Okay....how hard did I hit my fucking head....or is that stupid blue flower giving me the worlds greatest hallucination ever...either way....I am praying to every god I know of...because this is fucking extreme...." I quitely said, not entirely sure on what I was seeing was real, or just one large ass hallucination, either way if I talked to loud the people of that settlement would wonder who is yelling at such a time, and well finding a guy that is higher than the sky yelling, they might think that I am crazy...yea I rather keep my mouth shut until I get closer...
Walking closer to the town I noticed that not only was the strange pink clouds raining a strange dark liquid...that liquid was appearently chocoloate milk...whoever created this strange cloud I give him an A+ for creating something amazing and useful to mess with peoples heads. Another thing I realized that those same clouds...one was stuck on the floor, being eaten by rabbits whose legs have been stretched to insane limits...eating a cloud....
"What the hell? Pink Clouds can be eaten? This I have to try....well..maybe later....eh fuck it I am eating it now." I said, my thurst for knowledge has no bounds, and that also means my sweet tooth also has no bounds.
As I took a few steps closer to the rapidly shrinking cloud, the rabits turn around and gave me a quick look over, and at that look over I could tell, well hard to tell when a mutated rabbits jaw drops, because appearently they all stopped eating and almost immediately ran off, leaving the cloud to me.
"Well...that was odd...I would have ran instead...damn creepy as hell to see rabbits eating a pink cloud with long ass legs...whatever the mage in this village has done...he sure as hell deserves a praise for making this place more fun...hell probably made it better...dancing buffalo...floating upside homes...this is fairly....chaotic...eh more cloud for me than." I said, musing over the facts that it was indeed chaos taking over the town.
As I step closer I can hear voices from the other side of the houses, at first I thought I was just hearing things, but before I even take a bite from the cloud I hear voices shouting at each other.'Perfect...a domestic dispute....' I thought to myself, if they see me, and react to me like those rabbits did, than I might have to put them to sleep...hopefully they just want to be put to sleep.
I peek my head around the corner, hoping that I remain unseen but to what I see next...makes me wonder about my sanity.
I saw what appeared to be 6 small horses...2 of them were unicorns...which now means the mage back at the academy now owes me 200 gold pieces for proving that they are real...next I saw 2 horses with wings...what were they called again? Pegasis...winged horses...whatever. After those four were just 2 normal horses...but the thing that made me wonder about my sanity was that they were all pastel colored...than noticing that, I looked around and it felt like I just ran head long into a brick wall.
Everything I saw was pastel colored, even myself, my robes and body, all pastel colored. I am not sure if I was freaking out from the posionous plant, or from the fact that this place is unreal and I am dead.
Another thing that caught my attention was that they were talking....talking horses....I must have hit my head harder than I thought....but not only were they talking...they were talking to something that was a complete mismatch of body parts...a serpentine body and tail with fluff and the end, not matched limbs...whatever it was, it was acting like it was the king of the world, gloating and saying anything it wanted...something that I hated....reminds me to much of the stupid warden and the court marshels back home.
I breathed in deeply, getting over my fear that I am having the best hallucination ever and was about to talk to not only the talking horses, but to the talking science project. "Okay...I can do this...how hard can it be? Right?" I had no freaking idea on how worse it was about to get.
Just as I turn the corner, I see 6 ponies rising in the air, suspended what looks like a magical field, glowing also which means they were all charging for a spell, and the abomination was just standing their like nothing was going to happen. I just thought that the pretty light show was meant to blindd or weaken it, instead a large colorful rainbow shot outward, arcing its way to the creature, my thoughts were 'Oh Fuck Me....did I just see 6 ponies shoot a rainbow beam out of what is that? 5 necklaces and a tiara? Okay...I am really...really screwed now...maybe being half way out of my cover was a bad idea...'
Going back to watch the rainbow show of lights, the beam striked down the beast, at first I thought it was laughing, but upon contact it started to howl out in pain, and I clearly noticed why. It was slowly turning to stone from the feet up. From my experience, turning to stone royally sucks ass, it doesn't hurt but being stuck in place like a statue until someone releases the spell, well you might as well just kill me right then and there. As it slowly was encased in stone, it tried to stave off the magic, only for it to fail miserably as its body was caught forever in a scared posture, its face with the look of pure fear, forever immortalized in stone.
Seeing how 6 pastel colored ponies managed to defeat the worlds worst science project with magic, and knowing that I am not fully exposed and can be seen by them, I really have only two options: One is to run like a bat out of hell, the other is to explain myself and hopefully they don't blast my ass straight to hell. I now know that I rather run than get petrified like that, so I quickly turn tail and run like a dragon was chasing after me.
Maybe running was not the best of ideas I had at the moment...
Just as I quickly turn around and not even a step from starting to run, I felt something slam right into me at a high rate of speed, forcing me into the ground and at the same time, grinding my face into the floor...very painful.
"Where do you think your going stranger? Who are you and what are you?" said the attacker, sounding female and with a tomboyish accent. I mumble my answer since my head is still pressed into the dirt path, it was painful enough to try to speak while my face is being crushed, even more when I realized that my nose was broken upon impact.
"What was that? I couldn't hear you...speak louder!" I was already starting to get annoyed of that voice. I slowly move my hands, both of them pressed against the ground, with enough force and strength I managed to throw my attack off my back, a small thud was produced signalling that she has hit the floor.
"I said...my name...is none of your concern and what I am...is not of your concern...." I said, my voice filled with hatred and anger. As I get up to resume my running, a rope lasso goes around my body, fearing that it was a hang mans noose going around me again. "Oh come on....not this again...." I said, barely even getting 10 steps into my run I get lassoed, I turn around to see the culprit, an orange pony, wearing a strange hat with blonde mane and tail, holding the rope in its mouth...now that was a strange sight to see.
"Now hold on their you varmit" said the orange one, sounding like one of those southerners from the Liet Fields. That accent reminds me of the few prisoners that kept me company during my 5 year stay, their voices were more rugged but still better to listen to her voice than the cyan pegasis that struck me earlier.
"Alright....I will, but only for a few moments before I retreat back into the woods...or until I figure out how in the seven hells I managed to even teleport here..." I said, finally giving in. When I said I will stay for a while, all 6 of them gave me that look from what my eyes could see say 'Did it just say it will stay? And it spoke!', that look was starting to get amusing enough to make me laugh.
"You know....I will answer only certain questions....if it pleases me I will answer it, but if its something that I deam not worth my time I will not answer it." I stated, not wanting to sound like a real asshole infront of my captors.
"So....what do you want from me...otherwise can you please get this lasso off of me...and tell that cyan pegasis to run because I did not like it when it grinded my head against the gravel." I slightly growled out.
The purple unicorn stared at me inquisitively, looking at me up and down, circling my crumpled form while I sit their like another prisoner. I just stared back, not even blinking, not letting my guard down. I could have used magic to escape but for some reason I couldn't, my connection to my spells was cut off by some unknown force, rather from the unicorns presence or maybe from those stupid blue posion flowers...either way I knew that escape was going to be nearly impossible.
"Well...since it seems you are intelligent enough to speak equestrian...I am wondering what are you? And how did you come with the knowledge to speak our langauge?" said the purple unicorn, I knew she was the leader, but I did not know that she was also the intellect of the group, most likely the brains and also the logic.
I cough a bit, the lasso slightly tightened around my ribs. "You know....crushing my ribs is not a good way to keep me talking with stuttered breathing....and to answer your question purple one...as to what I am...I am Human...mentally stable at the moment. So please...just...keep your questions simple." I said, looking into her eyes and than into the other 5 ponies eyes.
After the purple one nods to the orange one, she loosened the lasso around me, allowing me to breath easier and move my arms more freely, moving them to my chest to better defend myself better.
"Alright...now for your other question....how I came to know of your langauge? Well...it is the same as my peoples language...that and it is called the common tongue." I said flately, not amused at the time because of being questioned by talking pastel ponies.
They all start to look at me, half of them with forced smiles, thinking that I am a threat and at the same time not a threat while the other half still think I should be tossed back into the forest.
"Any other questions little ponies? Otherwise...I bid you 6...good bye." I said, standing up slowly and before I can turn around I felt something hard hit me upside the head, making me fall to my knees. My head spinning quickly as I turn around, almost falling over ontop of the pink pony.
"Wha....wha is goin on?" I barely say it before I feel a hoof hit my again, knocking me on my face, quickly losing consciousness. "Is this....how you treat....outsiders...you....bloody....ponies..." I barely manage to say before I take another hoof to the head, knocking me out cold face first in the floor.
Ponyville, 6 Hours Later
"So...it is a Human, but we do not know its name, its origins, or how it got here...and to top it off it was fairly rude when we caught it" said Twilight, Spike was behind her, writing everything down on a scroll, and after a while he finishs writing and breaths a green flame on it, disintergrating it as it flies out of the library window and into the night sky, floating all the way to Canterlot. "I hope the princesses knows anything about this thing...for all we know it is dangerous...it is almost like a diamond dog but mostly hairless...and its eyes....it was blind and yet it kept staring at me.....I..I am going to bed now Spike...just clean up a bit than go to sleep...we will deal with this thing in the morning." pointing at my unconscious form lying down on the couch, not even moving and barely breathing.
Little to what they know, the posion joke was wearing off naturally for me, and after they both left to retire for the day, small embers fall from my hands, the very faint signs of my magic returning to me. I grin unknowingly in my knocked out state, slowly making the ropes binding me move on its own accord, faintly moving off of my body and folding itself onto the floor, leaving me free.
In my head, I am resting in my meditation circle, slowly reaching out to everything, using them as my new eyes and ears as I rest, hoping to find a way to escape before I am killed or sent to pony prison.
That is the last thing I need...This is a new world...ruled most likely by ponies....so these are new rules which will give me a new set of problems to get out of....never good....well...since these are ponies I might have to use something from my world to convince them...hopefully they know of Princess Celestia and Luna...hopefully.
Ponyville, 1 Hour Later, My Mind
{So...captured again...new realm of existance...new beings...and magic...okay this is not the worst thing that has ever happened to be besides prison...talking to a pony princess in a mirror, and watching a strange ass magic storm burn down the capital...so...options....options....options...well...I can always try to escape and hide out somewhere and be isolated...sure no one would bother to find me, but than their is that problem with food supply...or I can always go with these ponies to whoever is in charge, most likely sent to a pony prison or to some sort of zoo and be titled "The Rarest Creature in Existence", but that would most likely be a guilded life style which I will not have since I can talk and use magic....so that is a hell no....hmmm....seems like my options are pretty thin....better come up with a plan soon...don't want to end up on a pike and be shown to everyone, that would just suck. I might as well just roll with it...see where it goes....and maybe some sleep will help me form a plan....yea...sleeping sounds like a good plan, any maybe a sleep spell on these ponies...hopefully not all of them are immune to magic...hehe...sounds like I already made a plan....well...time for some shut eye before I go insane.} I grumble some words before I smile faintly and resume my current status of sleep and resume counting sheep jumping over a fence....hmmm....sheep....one sheep...two sheep....three....zzzzZZZZzzzzzzZZZzz.