Then I woke up in one of the most awkward position I have ever known and in a box.

Yep a wooden box.

'I don't quite know how I'm supposed to respond to this and OH GOOD GOLDEN GONADS!' I never knew my mind was capable of scream thinking in pain but there it goes. 'It's like every muscle in my body blew a fuse.' I grunted as I tried to move and untangle only to be met with minimal success.

Once done I found I was stuck on my knees seeing how the box was a little over 2 thirds my height. It was so tight that I was almost completely unable to turn. 'Wait... Oh bugger me, is this thing moving!' There was definite rattle to it and I could feel wind blasting through the cracks confirming my thoughts.

'Unholy frick I'm being shipped! And not even well, seriously is it too much to ask for some hay on the floor or something? Though they are ponies so they probably eat it but still something relatively soft would be appreciated.' I snapped myself out of my thoughts in time to realize I'm current panicking right now.

Now it may seem like an overreaction but you'll be surprised at just how fast you can turn claustrophobic until you wake up in a cramp box with no memory how you got there.

Anyway I knew I had get out, I didn't know why or where I would go but I was too panicked to care. I positioned myself so my legs are directed to the door which I could tell by the rattling of the hinges.

I kicked at it. Pain electrocuted my brain as my muscles cried out. "Fu me, wan" I blurted out unable to hide the painful experience of chronic muscle cramping. 'I have to do this, I can cry about pain later' my mind growled as it probably pumped me with whatever hormones it needed to in order to get me moving.

I kicked again this time I could hear some of the wood splinter and strain. All my attention was focused on that door, I forgot where I was, I forgot how confined it was and I forgot my pain. I gritted my teeth as an anger fuelled by desperation and fear started to boil in the core of my body.

My heart rushed my blood to wherever it was needed most as my focus called for my brain to shut down any part of non-essential part of itself.

I kicked once more and that was all that was needed.

As my mind tried to cope with the fact I was now plummeting to my death, I did the only thing I could think to do.

Laugh.

I laughed at the absolute absurdity of everything that has recently transpired.

I laughed at the fact I could have been mauled by a mythological animal today and something as plain as falling was how I was going to die.

I laughed at if I didn't freak out back there would've probably been safe, unless they turned out to be carnivorous.

I laughed at how completely possible that talking ponies, pegasi and unicorns could be carnivorous, I mean why not? They talk.

I laughed at the normal looking moon in the normal looking night sky and how staring at could make me forget I'm somewhere strange.

And I cried at the fact that I am so utterly moronic and completely uselessly retarded that the only thing I could think to do when falling to death is laugh. I was well and truly afraid, I wanted to do something. Anything. If it means I'll live and yet all I could do as the ground approached was laugh like an idiot.

I heard a sound, a horrible disgusting sound only to be followed by a deep coldness and that was it.

...

I jolted awake, my mind blared searching for immediate danger and it rested having found none. In a panicked rush I mentally and physically gave myself a quick once over, after finding nothing out of place, I remembered to breathe once again.

'Good. All my organs are still were I left them.' While mentally embracing my precious meat sacks of life, I breathed as though I just ran a marathon. 'It was a dream, of course it was, it had to be' I thought as I wiped the cold sweat off.

As the higher fuctions of my brain started to kick in I noticed that I'm now in a different place than the previous ones I woke up in. 'I can't even be sure how much of my current memory is a dream, am I inception-ing myself right now? I can't be, if I was then I wouldn't asking myself if this was a dream.'

I forced myself to break out of my thoughts in order to relax and gather them 'Ok going from the fact that I have never asked "is it a dream?" in a dream. I can't be sure the rest wasn't a dream just because I can't remember asking myself but I guess it would make sense. I better treat as the whole pony and manticore incidents as a dream.'

Taking in my surroundings I couldn't help but be a little awestruck, it was like a posh theme hotel or something. Every wall and fixture was immaculately white with a hint of roman architecture. I sat up and looked at the bed or should I say beds, there were two. While one was normal but just as small as the one in my dream, the other had double the width of the first one and they've been placed together to make one big bed for me I assume.

'Am I in a hotel that caters specifically to little people or something?' I sighed at another unanswerable question. Then I noticed what I was wearing 'unholy frick!... well I guess this explains the uncomfortable giggling.' It was a robe, like a monk's only completely white and it was just that... nothing else... it concerned me deeply 'though to be fair I do kinda feel Jedi-ish right now.'

And yet again I wondered how long it took me to notice that there is currently a mountain load of food on several serving trays surrounding my bed. There where fruits, vegetables, sandwiches, pies, cake and so much more but as hungry as I was, I found eating wasn't on top of my priorities.

So seeing no other option and I mean no option that would be available to me within the amount of time that was currently being limited by my own desperation. I got up, grabbed a nearby vase, went to a corner, lifted my robe and did what I needed to do.

I felt like I was hearing Pachelbel's Canon play in my head 'oh dear super-frick that's good. Jeez it feels like I haven't gone in days.' I mentally tuned out until I finished after which I gave it a light shake before letting my robe fall back down. As if on cue there was a knock on the door, a very solid knock by someone on the other side.

I am a terribly jumpy person and if I hadn't just gone, I would have.

'Oh bugger me. Now someone shows up? How the heck do I handle this? "Hi I'm Jonathan Dae, how are you? Thank you for taking me in and oh yes that is your vase I just pissed in"... that is currently glowing.' Looking at the now luminescent object I swore I heard brain just... snap. Nothing fancy, no bangs or ka-booms just a snap and maybe a bit of an eye twitch.

'Seriously, I wake up in weird place after dreaming of waking in two weirder places and my piss just HAS to glow doesn't it?'

There was another knock at the door.

Now if my mind hadn't just snapped a second ago I'm certain I could have thought of a better idea than throwing the vase out of the window.

But it did snap, I didn't think and it there the piss filled vase majestically flew, out of the conveniently open window.

As it did I wondered if I should try jumping after it, then I remembered that I'm afraid of heights and then I wondered why I keep blanking on that.

Another knock.

'OH FOR CRYING OUT MOTHERFRICKING LOUD! I HAVE OTHER THINGS TO HANDLE POORLY!' yelled my mind so loud I was a little deaf. "Err hello?" was all I was able to say 'I am the most idiotic person to live and I should never be allowed to reproduce.'

"...hello?"

The voice replied. It sounded startled like it wasn't expecting an initial response to the knocking, probably thinking I was still sleeping. 'Thank whatever manners they had that made them knock instead of just walking in.'

I felt a little relieved when I heard whispers from the door, I mean I'm glad I'm not the only one who has no idea what to do next.

"How are you feeling?" The mature feminine voice asked. 'How on earth am I suppose to answer that? Did she mean physically or mentally? Because physically I feel better than I have ever felt before but mentally my brain felt like it was trying to boil itself in its own juices using stupidity as a heat source.'

I gulp and replied "I'm ok." I decided to stick to generally indifferent answers rather than express my thoughts. 'Ah my personal secret to a long and relatively hassle free life; an arm's length personal space both physically and emotionally.'

"I'm glad" she said in a concerned tone. It was a little foreign to me to be honest. I mean I make it a point to avoid situations where any strangers would never need to feel any concern for me.

"May I come in?" the voice calmly asked and I could hear my gut twist into a knot. 'What? Why? I'm not decent; in fact I'm in a robe that you or someone close probably put on me after taking all my clothes. I'm going have to ask about that, I'm going to have to ask about a lot of things and I'm not getting anywhere driving myself nuts.'

I let out a very big, very loud sigh, unintentional of course but I still hoped that it would convey worry rather than annoyance. "There's no need to worry" 'success!' "We aren't going to hurt you" 'we? WE?' I breathed deeply as I reminded myself not to jump out of the window.

"By 'we' do you mean more there's than one of you?" I asked 'of course she meant more than one! I'm not unlucky enough to be abducted or lucky enough to be found by posh speaking royalty. Even if I was I have no idea what to do, I'll be too afraid that I'll mess it up in such a way that would cause an international, interplanetary, universal incident or all three '

"Only me and my sister but we mean no harm" 'I should ask who they are but I guess it would be more polite doing that face to face rather than face to door to face.' Mentally preparing for alien little people dressed in white togas I said "ok, come in"

The door opened.

O how I miss that closed door and all its wonderful ignorance.

'Stupid toga wearing little aliens why couldn't you exist when I needed you to the most?'

What walked in was something that no sci-fi nut would've guessed. A pony. A rather skinny, completely white pony with a horn long enough to kebab me and a pair of large very soft looking white wings. The colours of its mane and tail were a pastel rainbow that kind of reminded me of colours seen in spilt oil, both moved as though it was swimming through the air. Oh and it was wearing gold jewellery, yep it's basically a sentient self-propelling spear with a sense of accessorizing.

The one following closely was similar in that it had the same kind of build though generally smaller and wore the same kind of jewellery. However colour wise it was almost the complete opposite to the bigger one. Its coat while adorned with black jewellery was midnight blue with a darker sheen to it. And instead of a muted rainbow for a mane its royal blue hair seemed to randomly sparkle in places as it flowed.

And if it wasn't for the urge to leave a cartoonish me-shaped hole in the nearest wall I would of paid some attention to that sense of déjà vu I was getting. 'Frick me sideways. They're... err... what was it again? I remember looking it up one time but can't recall. Aww man this drive me nuts. Unisus? Pegacorn? Cornsus?... Unipeg! That's it! They're unipegs, phew that's a relieve and at least now I know what's about to kill me.'

"It's nice to finally be able to talk face to face" the bigger one smiled calmly with the same voice I heard before. 'Hmm, I'm not sure how I feel about that. I mean sure talking ponies are weird but it would have been just as weird if it was a human who randomly decided to push to unipegs into the room'

"Though you did seem more responsive with the door closed" it chuckled noticing my sudden inability of verbalisation 'of course I was. I thought I was in a situation that was somewhat FRIKING POSSIBLE!' My gut tightened as I was at a loss to what to do 'I should talk but what the heck do I say? I have no previous experience in this kind of situation even if they were human. Am I supposed to be polite? Are they? Am I supposed to be eating to fatten myself up so they can eat me? Oh frick! Now I've just freaked myself out.'

"Sorry" I managed to squeeze out 'that's it? Two talking ponies have either abducted or taken me in and that's ALL I can say? Not even "please don't eat me"?' I did try my best to hide my nerves, it should be easy I'm not the most outwardly expressive person but somehow they saw through that. Maybe it because I'm clinging to the walls like a cat who knows its bath time but we may never know.

"You need not apologise to us. We can understand your predicament" the blue one reassured. While the white one sounded certain and self assured to a infallible degree, were as this one sounded a little put on like it was trying a bit too hard to sound... posh I guess.

"Yes it must be quite stressful waking up in a foreign land, please do not feel pressured into talking, we only wanted to check up on you. So when you are comfortable feel free not to hold back." the white unipeg nodded as it spoke up 'oh she's good, I'm already feeling relaxed... well more so than I did a minute ago. I mean I'm not going to spill my guts but a dialog wouldn't hurt... and I'm hungry'

I would like to think I made the decision because it was the most logical one with all the reasoning considered but I was just hungry.

I let out a sigh and it felt as if I vented steam pressure. Both of them were watching me intently 'don't even know how to start this. With the basics I guess'

"Do you" I paused, nerves getting the better of me 'just breathe' "I mean would you mind if I eat while we talk?"

They shook their heads simultaneously "Please, be not afraid to help yourself" the blue one gestured with a hoof. Taking it as a good sign I grabbed a fancy looking plate and piled on some lettuce, carrots, cucumber slices, small tomatoes, sprouts, I left the hay and added some bread buns.

If there was meat I would have added it too but the lack of it was probably a good thing considering how it countered the 'wanting to eat me' idea after all I'm made of meat.

They watched me take the food back to the bed making me feel like I'm being judged. It wasn't as if there was somewhere else to sit down. "Err would you like any?" I offered while crossing my legs holding the plate by one hand, feeling a little greedy having it all to myself.

They politely turned it down "It's quite alright, both me and my sister have already eaten" 'ok so they're both sisters, I guess I should have figured that from the door conversation, oh well.'

"That food was freshly placed here in the event you might wake up, if it is not to your liking then we can find you... something else." The blue Unipeg hesitated much to my and the white one's notice. 'Why would she be nervous about offering food? That doesn't make much sense... Unless she isn't afraid TO offer but WHAT to offer. Oh. OH! They think I might try to eat them! That must be it but... even if I did wanted meat they wouldn't sacrifice their own to simply satisfy me, would they?

No. I don't think so. Let's see; they must of realized I'm an omnivore, I mean a quick look at the teeth would have told them that. So why be afraid? Wait I'm thinking about this wrong, I've been thinking of them as people to help ease into things but they're not, they're ponies. Judging by that and the food they gave me they're herbivores. Which means they never had to kill and that they won't eat me so... woo.

Carnivores have to kill to live. Omnivores have a choice but in the wild would often go for the most logical option and considering the given risks meat is the most efficient way to obtain needed proteins. Though normally eat plants as a secondary protein source. However herbivores had to eat plants so they would have no experience in killing for food the same way carnivores and omnivores do.

That's it. They afraid of killing anything and now they're staring. Frick I how long have I drifted off into my own thoughts for? Recover! Recover!' With eyes wide open I rubbed the back of my head and smiled nervously "the food's fine, good, better, I mean great" 'I wouldn't blame them if they killed me. I think they would be doing me a favour'

"Are you well?" the blue one asked obviously no longer concerned about the food but rather what must have been a massive silent gap. I attempted to laugh it off lightly "yeah I'm fine, I just get lost in my thoughts, a bad habit I guess."

The white one chuckled again "well we all have one those." The other one smiled while I mentally thanked whatever higher power they prayed to here.

They looked to each other "Oh my, where are my manners? We should introduce ourselves" 'AAAAAAH! I never said my name! I've slept here and eaten their food but I never asked for names or even told them my name? If my mum was alive she would kick my butt, heck if I was anywhere near my town she would of risen up just to kick my butt.'

"I am Princess Celestia" the white followed stated proudly

"And I am Princess Luna it is a pleasure to meet you" the blue one followed

'!'

"err thanks, my name Jonathan Dae"

'!'