Me and Rainbow sat there, with her on the couch and me sitting behind it to previously hide myself. We were just staring at each other with smiles as wide as canyons across our faces, both amazed at what we were looking at.
Then, calmly and with a smile still radiating from her face, Rainbow began, “Hey there little guy. My name’s Rainbow Dash. What’s yours?”
My face changed from one with joy to one of bewilderment and concern. My name? Uh, I mean my name is Taylor but I don’t think that would really fit a magical female filly. I decided to just shyly shrug in response to her question.
“You don’t know your name?!” I just slowly turned my head from her down to the floor.
Then Fluttershy began, “I found her near the edge of the Everfree forest yesterday”. She continued with a cloudy and saddened tone in her voice, “She was all alone, unconscious and with cuts all over her body. The worst though were across her wings, poor thing.”
“Her wings? SHE’S A PEGASUS!?” Rainbow exclaimed. “I can’t see her wings with all the bandages you put on her Fluttershy.” I looked down at my body. My soft fur, with layers of bandages on top of one another, making my wings barely visible. Not going to lie though, I’m kind of hoping that I can use my new wings before I get home, if I can get home.
The idea of not knowing how or if I even could get home made me feel as if I got hit by seven semi-trucks simultaneously. The possibility of not being able to see my family, friends or anything I knew ever again was more than overwhelming to say the least. Memories of my life flashed before my eyes. Wha-What am I supposed to do? How am I going to get home? Can I even get home? What about my family? Questions flooded into my head, circling my thoughts for what seemed like hours.
I don’t get emotional too often, but with everything going on, it just kind of happened. I began to feel a warm tear coming from my left eye that I tried to wipe away with my soft hoof before Fluttershy or Rainbow Dash saw it, but it was too late.
Fluttershy picked me up in her hooves, moving me close to the soft fur of her chest. She began to smoothly whisper in my ear so that only I could hear, “It’s okay, it’s okay. Everything is going to be okay. We’re going to take good care of you”. That’s when the freaking dam broke through, like a damn tidal wave, tears flooded from my eyes. I couldn’t hold back anything, no matter how much I tried. However, I did feel comforted by the soft patting of Fluttershy’s hooves against my back.
Eventually, and fortunately, the tears retreated and the onslaught of water stopped. I could feel Fluttershy’s tight grip on me loosen as she brought me away from her and back onto the couch. Then Fluttershy began, “I hope you’re feeling better.” I happily nodded in response. “Thank goodness,” she continued in her soft voice. “Also, I hope you don’t mind, but Rainbow Dash and I are going to meet with Princess Twilight soon. I just wanted to make sure that you’d be fine if we left you here with Angel until we got back.” Once again I nodded.
Both Rainbow and Fluttershy sweetly bid me farewell before leaving the cottage to which I waved in response. Now that I have some time to myself, let’s see if I can explore where I am. I have an idea of where I am from watching the show, but I don’t have an in-depth idea of where locations are in relation to one another.
Firstly, I’ll explore Fluttershy’s cottage. I proceeded to take a step down from the couch onto the wooden floor below. The wood felt very cold on my hooves in comparison to the warm cotton of the couch. I looked around the room to find two doorways, one leading to the kitchen and the other leading upstairs. I decided to check upstairs before I go into the kitchen. As I made my way towards the stairs, I felt the bandages tugging on my fur as if it was trying to rip off every bit of hair from my body. I’m not going around like this. I wonder if Fluttershy has scissors or a knife to get these off. She may have one in the kitchen so change in plans, check the kitchen first.
Struggling, I walked over to the kitchen door and peered through to spot a knife on her kitchen table. Her table looks exactly like a picnic table which would be strange in any other house but for some reason, it fits the cottage. Anyways, I made my way to the table and “grabbed” the knife up top. Taking a deep breath, I laid the knife on the ground and put the pressure of one hoof on top of it. I really don’t trust myself to try and hold something this sharp with something as flat as a hoof.
Slowly and carefully I put my other hoof’s bandages up to the blade of the knife and cautiously moved it up and down and until it cut. I then switched hooves and did the same thing. Then I repeated the process with the back hooves. After, I peered down at my now fully visible hooves and saw the scars that surrounded them. They were small in size, but large in number. I’m pretty surprised that the wounds healed as quickly as they did though. My eyes adjusted upwards from my hooves to my torso where my wings laid, covered in layers upon layers of bandages. I’m not even going to try to take off those bandages because I’m pretty sure I’d end up killing myself.
Anyways, once I was done with that I headed out the kitchen and up the stairs. It was weird walking upstairs on all fours with how small I was, but I managed. Eventually I arrived at the second floor where only a single bedroom could be found. In it stood a single bed, a chimney to its right, and a dresser. For how big it is, it seems pretty empty.
Whelp, that was a lot more anticlimactic than what I thought, but then again I don’t really know what I was expecting. I decided to turn-around and head straight back downstairs. “Maybe there’s more stuff outside?”
When I reached the bottom of the stairs I made my way to the front of the door, taking a deep breath as I did so. The door was made of some strange reddish wood and had hinges and a handle that seemed to be made of pure gold. Pretty nice. The door is also separated by a lower and upper half with the handle lying on the lower part of the door. I reached for the golden handle, wrapped my hoof around it and pulled. The door slowly creaked open allowing light from the sun to breach the crack.
I exited through the door to find the beauty of the world. It was overwhelming. There were vibrant colors of life; lively green in the trees, radiant hues of yellows and reds in the flowers, deep shades of blue in the sky and soft whites in the clouds above. It was breathtaking! I spotted more bird houses in the trees near the cottage and ahead was a bridge over a gentle stream of water. But before I continue my adventure, I made sure to shut the door to Fluttershy’s house. Just the nice thing to do.
Anyways, I followed the dirt path leading from the cottage to the small bridge. I looked up at the trees and the life inside of them as I walked past, the creatures seemed so at peace, much more calm than animals back on Earth. Oh….. that’s right. I wonder if I’ll ever even see any life from Earth ever again. I let out an extended sigh as I kept walking.
Eventually I made my way to the bridge where a calm stream laid below. I stood at the bridge’s edge and peered down into the gentle blue beneath me. It was so clear! I could see the fishes and their undisturbed movements. Amongst them was a filly. Wait, is that my reflection! I stuck my hoof out to see the watery figure act in the same fashion. Sweet, it is me! I never had the chance to really see what I look like ever since I got here.
I looked back to see a filly with very light blue fur, a little bit lighter than Rainbow’s. I still had the bandages on my wings and upper torso which blocked much of my body, but I could still see some major parts. I could see my hair, or mane, which was interesting to say the least. It was short and messy and had the same style as my tail. It was blue with a small streak of white running through it. But the face was the freakiest thing to me by far. The feminine features of the face were the scariest things I’ve ever seen. I mean, I already knew that I was a SHE, but I didn’t want to believe it. It’s just not right. My attention then changed to my eyes which were huge. They were very cool though, one eye was a vibrant blue while the other was an ember, like one that you would find in the heart of a fire. It was a very strange contrast but I was still more concerned by the feminine features.
I stood there for a while, just staring at myself. I mean, this is me. This is the new me. The temporary me? I don’t know anymore. I just let out another heavy sigh out of frustration and confusion.
Eventually I realized that I should probably continue my “adventure” before Rainbow and Fluttershy get back and suspect anything. I gazed down the rest of the path to find it leading to numerous houses and shops. Hmm, that must be Ponyville!