When Sparrows Fly

Chapter 3

I'm not happy with this chapter. I've been weird while typing all week, so there might be some mistakes, and I've been getting a lot of homework and tests because it's almost the end of the year. I wanted to make it longer, but I also wanted to update it tonight. Eventually, my urge to update won out. Also, I ask that you review. Flame me if you have to, just say something.

There's something else I wanted to say. Next week, I have a lot of studying to do, and something like four or five essays I'm going to have to write. I will not be updating for two weeks, unless there's some kind of miracle allowing me to finish Chapter 4. On the bright side, though, it should be longer than the rest of the chapters.

Alright, so, I forgot this the last two times and I'd rather not get sued, so I'm going to stress the fact that I don't own MLP: FiM, which should be obvious because if I did then this would be canon and the franchise would be ruined forever.

On with the show!

The six ponies and the human were all staring at each other with the exception of Fluttershy, who was still hiding behind Twilight Sparkle. Nathan, recovering ever-so-slightly, repeated, "What the hell just happened?" and then asked, "Where am I? What the hell's going on here?" He was still a bit stunned, but his brain was rebooting. He looked from the purple unicorn and the light yellow pegasus hiding behind her, to the cyan pegasus who was apparently had not noticed that she had fallen to the ground, over to the white unicorn who still looked a little bit faint, the light orange earth pony who seemed to have recovered from the shock and was now giving him a suspicious glare, and finally the bright pink pony.

Pinkie being Pinkie, she was unable to contain her excitement at the new... well, not exactly pony, but still. Almost instantly, she was out of her chair and in front of the bewildered human, very very quickly moving around, occasionally breaking various laws of physics, rapidly saying, "Wow, I've never seen anypony like you before! I'm Pinkie Pie and I love parties and cupcakes and laughing and what's your name and do you love parties and cupcakes and laughing?" She looked at Nathan wide-eyed and expectant, and also in the middle of hanging upside down in the air... again.

Nathan, as opposed to answering, continued looking from pony to pony until his gaze landed on Twilight Sparkle, at which point he looked back and forth between the unicorn and the earth pony, then said, "She's upside down."

Twilight just looked back at him and said, "Uhh... yes, she is."

"You're real."

"Why wouldn't I be?"

"My God," Nathan said, and laughed, "I'm talking to a purple unicorn about a talking pink pony hanging upside down in the middle of the air." At this point he passed out.

Twilight was surprised, but she was quick enough to catch him with her magic and keep him from falling on the ground again.

"AJ," she said, "We should get it inside. Can we take it up to your house?"

"Sure thing," the cowpony responded. "Rainbow Dash, stop lookin' like the Wonderbolts just offered to make you the captain and help us get this thing inside!"

"Huh? Wha? Oh, yeah, sure." The cyan pegasus flew over to the unconscious human, then asked, "Uh, Twilight, can't you just, you know, levitate it?"

"Yes. I don't know why Applejack said that."

The mare in question grinned sheepishly. "Uhh... Rarity, how about ya' get that box thing there?"

The glow of magic enveloped the creature and the box that had appeared with it as the two unicorns levitated them. "Fluttershy," Twilight said, "Have you ever seen an animal like this before?"

"Oh, no," the yellow pegasus replied, "I've never seen anything like it. Oh, I wonder what it is." The mares nodded in agreement. They'd faced dragons, armies of changelings, and Discord, and this was still strange, even by their standards.

Finally they reached Applejack's farm house. Fortunately for them, Big Mac was in Ponyville getting supplies to fix up around the farm, Apple Bloom was still crusading with Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, and Granny Smith was visiting an old friend in Appleloosa, so for an hour or two at least there wouldn't be any questions about why they were bringing a potentially hostile, six-foot tall creature none of them had ever even heard about before inside.

Once inside, the creature was put into a chair, and the box placed next to it. The six ponies assembled in Applejack's kitchen, and just looked at each other for a few seconds, except for Pinkie, who was, for whatever reason, attempting to lick one of her eyeballs.

"That was strange." Applejack finally broke the silence.

"No kidding," this time from Rainbow Dash. "Fluttershy, you're sure you don't know what that thing is?" Again, all five of them-four, Pinkie was still trying to lick her eyeball- looked at the pegasus, who just shook her head and said softly, "I hope it's alright, though." At this, Dash turned her attention to Twilight. "You're an egghead, you've must've read something about whatever that thing is!"

"I've never seen anything like it in any of my books. I suppose it might be a changeling, but then what's it impersonating, and how did it just show up here,? However it did it, it wasn't a teleportation spell. In fact, I'm not even sure that it can use magic." The mares contemplated this information.

"Well, I say that whatever it is, we go over there, wake it up, and make it tell us!" Dash started moving towards the doorway into the next room over, her friends following and trying to talk her out of whatever she was planning. It didn't matter, however, as the creature was already awake and beginning to stand up. As soon as it saw them, though, it froze, just looking at them as they did the same. After a short period of tense silence, it simply said, "Oh."

Now, to the reviewers.

Crimson Banner-Thank you for saying so, and for the review.

LeSpy-Nice to know that someone thinks I have a sense of humor and am not, in fact, simply deranged (although this grows more and more likely each day). To be honest, I think that Pinkie's rather easy to write-a dash of random, 14 gigawatts of pure energy, and chuck the laws of physics out the window. I think I have problems with things like dialogue and description. Thank you for the cookie, by the way. My last comment to you: what the hell? I tell you that you scared the shit out of me by saying that the next chapter will make or break the story, then you do it again? Are you trying to give me a nervous breakdown or something? Jeez.

So, yeah, for those of you who have and haven't done so, please review. I'm especially looking for tips on how to make my chapters longer. I've never done this before, remember. Like I said, even if it's a flame, it's better than nothing.

Oh, and by the way, did any of you notice that Pinkie wasn't in that chapter? It was her stunt double. Have you ever tried to capture her with a butterfly net? Oh well, I've got a trap set in the way of a party. She'll be back next chapter.

Good night and good day to you where and when ever you may be reading this!