Wow. I got all of two reviews (thanks, guys)! So encouraging.
Anyway.
MMM - Maybe. You'll just have to read and find out!
Haugeboy - Yes, it is.
Just so you guys know, I'll put a XxXxX in somewhere - that means a time lapse.
After picking myself up, I just had to figure out how to use my new wings. So, I unfurled them took to the skies!
No, not really. I wish I did, though. I actually couldn't figure out which muscles to flex. I tried anyway, though! And If anyne had seen me, I probably would have been shunned for life, because who tries to grab something on their so hard they fall over (again)!
After I finally figured out that my efforts were fruitless, I decided I needed to look around, find civilization. Frm the top of my hill, culd see for miles (even the horizon seemed farther off) - in all but one direction, there was flat meadow. In the other direction, there was a big, deep, dark, scary forest.
Of course I went through the forest. Like it mattered, anyway, the sun was going down.
But not before trying to get my wings open again, which failed miserably. Again.
XxXxX
"Rawr!"
Wrong.
"Grr!"
No... That didn't sound scary at all.
"His-"
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!"
Crap! "What was that?" I said. I mean, seriously, what can a guy do to get some peace and quiet!
In the middle of the night!
Then I heard stomping. Big, loud, scary stomping... and it was coming for me! So, I did the only sensible thing: I ran. I ran, far, hard, and fast. But it was catching up. I had to dodge several trees, bushes, and undergrowth in general (in the dark!), but it sounded like whatever it was that was chasing me was knocking them down as it went.
Then I tripped over a root and stumbled into a clearing.
It was a large, sandy clearing, with two trees in the center. All I had time to do, though, was run over to one of them and hope. And turn aroud, of course. How cliché...
"Oh sweet baby Jesus, save me!" I said, as what I now know to be a manticore come crashing through the trees, stopping in front of me.
It was a great, big beast; huge, burly forelegs and long, agile backlegs; it was even frothing at the mouth... Just for me.
Then I heard some voices behind me.
"Let's go, girls! GET 'IM!"
Then some miniature horses (ponies?) flew or ran past me and started attacking the beast.
...What?
Then the beast started swatting them away, one by one. It even flicked one with the index and thumb on its paw that I never noticed. When it had finished, it slowly advanced on me, and raised a paw (?) into the air in a very menacing way. It stayed of of the other one, though; it must have hurt it.
Then it flew down towards my face!
Shit!
My only defense was holding my hands in front of my face, closing my eyes, and hope (again).
Nothing happened.
When I looked up (and blinked quite a few times), I was astonished to see the beast frozen in random patches all over its body, and the parts that wern't frozen were burning - but it was dead, so I was safe.
I looked around, and those ponies (there were six) were all giving me a very strange look. Along with their own pain, of course.
One was purple, and had a horn. She was giving me the strangest look.
The second was orange, and had a hat. She had a reproachful look.
The third was pink all over. She seemed happy with the world.
The fourth was white, with a very curled (mane?) and a horn. She had a disgusted look on her face.
The fith was yellow, and had wings. She was hiding behind her mane.
And the sixth was light blue with a multi-colred mane and wings. She had only a wary look on her face.
"What?" I asked, rather casually. In retrospect, that was my first mistake.
The silence was deafening.
"...What... are you?" The purple one finally asked. Fair enough question, I suppose.
"The question is, What are YOU?" I retorted. "And what did you do to that?" I continue, pointing to the slain beast.
"I asked first," it said. "So, answer me. What are you?"
"Well," I started, rather hesitantly, "I'm a human, or homo sapiens, if you want to get fancy. My name's Michael."
"Okay. I'm Twilight, and I'm a unicorn."
Because that happens all the time.
It - Twilight - continued.
"How did you do that without a horn?" She said.
"What?" I asked, confused. "Do what?"
"...Kill-" She seemed relatively uncomfortable saying that, "-the manticore."
My only reply was to give her a confused look.
She was going to speak again, but she was stopped by laughter. Evil, creepy laughter that came from nowhere and everywhere. Then all I could see was white.
XxXxX
When I finally came to, I was facing open sky.
Except for a larger-than-the-other-ponies pony that did not at all look friendly...
And the manic smile certainly didn't help!