WARNING

Mild Language

"Is he still okay?"

"Yeah, he's still asleep. He's been asleep for a while now, but it's not serious."

I was hearing voices, voices in the darkness of my consciousness. I slowly felt myself waking up, but I was unable to open my eyes, they were so heavy.

"So she said she just suddenly saw him appear in front of her cottage?"

"Yeah, just appeared in a flash of light, unconscious, or so she said."

"Well, he is a unicorn, so, maybe he just messed up a teleportation spell."

"Maybe."

I was finally able to open my eyes. Everything I saw was a blur; but, as my eyes cleared up, I was able to see the image of a room, a hospital room. I also managed to feel a bed under me, much more comfortable than the ones I slept in on the destroyer. Wait a minute… Why am I in a hospital room?! And why wasn't I on the destroyer?!

With my sudden realization I quickly sat up in the bed with wide eyes, but before I could really react to anything, I heard the door move. It was opening, and the sound somewhat comforted me. When the door opened, I expected to see the nurse walk in but, I saw a horse. I was surprised to see a horse walk into a hospital room, but when I examined the horse's features, I was even more surprised. It had a white coat, but it also had a pink mane. A horse with a pink mane? The horse also had on a nurse-like hat with a red cross on it with hearts in the corners.

This was strange for me, this must be a dream, nothing else could explain me being in a hospital room rather than the destroyer, or the strange horse in front of my bed.

"Uh…" I couldn't think of words.

"Oh! You're awake! That's good; I was getting a bit worried."

My eyes widened suddenly, still without words. She spoke! Her voice isn't something you would expect a horse's voice to be like, it was smooth and motherly like. I was starting to freak out just a bit by now.

"Y-You spoke!" I shouted out

She gave me a weird look, as if I was pointing out the obvious and that there was nothing strange about it.

"Um, of course I spoke, why wouldn't I?"

"But you're a horse!" I shouted again.

She then gave me a nasty look, like I insulted her. Her eyes squinted angrily at me and a large frown formed on her face, er, mussel.

"Excuse me?! I am not a horse!"

"But those legs! And mussel!"

"I'm a pony, for your information! Why do you feel the need to insult me?"

"B-but I…"

"You're acting as if you've never seen a pony before."

"Of course I've never seen a pony before!"

"But, YOU are a pony." She says awkwardly.

"Do I LOOK like a pony too you?!"

I crossed my arms, but I soon realized that I couldn't feel a hand there to grasp my arm. I blinked and tried to move my fingers, but I couldn't. It took me a moment to realize that I couldn't even move my hand!

"What the…" I said

I felt the Pony looking at me awkwardly.

I proceeded to feel my arms with my hands; only I couldn't feel my hands at all, it felt like my hands were a flat, hard surface. I brought my hands up and felt my face, it felt different; I was starting to lose it. What was going on? I didn't want to look at my hands, but I did anyway.

I brought my hands in front of my face and looked at them. I had no hands. They were, in fact, hooves that were similar to the pony's hooves, only they were a peach color. I felt my breathing suddenly get heavy.

"What the hell?!" I said out loud, my sudden outburst startling the pony a bit.

I suddenly stood up in my bed, but my legs felt unusual to me, what I could feel as deformed. I instantly lost balance while standing on my legs and tipped over sideways, falling off the side of the bed. I tried to grab the side rail of the bed, but my new hooves only slid off it. I felt my face meet the floor. My body was in an odd position, cheek against the ground and my arms, or forelegs I think, were on the ground too. My legs, hind legs, whatever, were against the bed's side.

The pony just ran over to my side with a worried look.

"Omigosh are you okay?!" She said and tried to help me up.

I tried to grab hold of her, but I couldn't thanks to my hooves. I finally managed to hang one foreleg over her neck and awkwardly stand on the other three.

"Hell no! W-what happened to me?!"

She remained quiet, as if she didn't understand my question.

"I-I need to look in a mirror!"

She simply nodded at what I said and aided me in walking over to the restroom. It took her and I a lot of effort to get over there because of how awkwardly I was walking on the three legs I was on, I kept tripping over them. We managed to get to the bathroom and I instantly sprang off her.

I stood on my hind legs and kept myself up by placing my forelegs up on the sink. I looked into the mirror and didn't see myself. It took me a few moments to realize, that I actually was looking at myself. My skin, or coat, was a peach color, same as my human skin. My hair was the same, too. My dark brown hair with the military buzz cut, eyes still a shiny green. The only thing I didn't understand was this horn on my forehead.

I kept my calm, breathing in and out slowly, thinking, forming my thoughts into words. I avoided the complex questions at the moment, thinking of one that would, hopefully, be a simple one.

"What's with this horn on my head?"

"That's your horn; you are a unicorn after all."

I blinked, looking at it. Okay, I was a horse, or pony, and I was a unicorn. That's what I was managing to piece together. I was freaking out on the inside.

"Why am I a unicorn?"

"Um, maybe because you were born one?" She said with a confused and annoyed look on her face.

I instantly turned my head to her to respond.

"But I'm not-!"

I paused, thinking of what to say now. Considering how she was acting to how I was acting, she didn't understand what I was talking about. I sighed, thinking of another one of my questions.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Nurse Redheart, I was told to take care of you while you were asleep."

Fancy name.

"How long was I out?"

"All day."

I nodded, and then looked at my forelegs. It felt weird, but I pushed from the sink and landed on all fours. I tried to keep balance, but the feeling was too alien to me and I nearly fell over, but Redheart rushed to my side and helped me keep my balance by leaning against my unbalanced side.

"Thanks… How did I get here?"

"A pony came in this morning with you; she said she saw you appear out of nowhere just passed out. She thought you were hurt and took you here."

From that explanation, her casually talking about another pony, I must be in a world made entirely of ponies instead of humans, but it was only a guess. They might not know about humans, well not her at least, or so I thought.

"You still need rest." She said sternly.

I thought it over.

"Yeah, alright."

I didn't argue with her, she was the nurse, after all. I knew it would be best for me to rest and stay in bed for now, at least so I can think about what's going on. I figured that this wasn't a dream the moment I looked into the mirror, so I knew that I needed to approach this situation logically.

She helped me to my bed where I laid under the covers. She knew I needed rest, but not for the same reason that I knew I did. I was still tired, especially after my small episode.

She was about to walk back out the door before she stopped and looked over at me.

"I forgot to ask your name." She said.

I looked up at her and responded.

"Allard."