First Transmutation

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

[As the small boy wakes up, dressed in his green jumper and hat, he shivers slightly and notices all the snow around. Standing up, he tugs on one of his ear flaps and slowly looks around the island. Clearly, he was lost. Was he alone?]

How did I get here? Or rather, where is here...?

[He'll be walking around with no real destination in mind.]

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[partysoft.insanejournal.com]

Oh, my, um, are you lost too?

[ a small yellow pony approaches! ]

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

I think so, I don--[turns to see...a talking pony?!]

W-was that you?

[partysoft.insanejournal.com]

Oh! Well, yes. I mean, sorry to bother you, I was just hoping that you could help, but it's, um, it's okay if you can't...

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

[He hadn't meant to offend the pony...]

No, its okay. But um, what did you need help with?

[partysoft.insanejournal.com]

It's just... I'm not sure where I am, either.

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

[A woman in black stops and looks at him. She's been exploring, trying to find a way off the island. Her priorities lie in getting to Japan and wringing a couple of necks, but so far she's made no progress.]

She's dragging in kids too?

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

Oh...was there anyone else around?

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

[He looks up at her and blinks in confusion.]

Um...what do you mean by "she"?

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

The crazy whatever she is who brought us here.

[She places a hand on her hips and frowns.]

Dunno what she'd want from kids though... Makes me real worried about her motives.

[partysoft.insanejournal.com]

I'm not sure. You can talk, but you're definitely not a pony.

I don't mean to be rude, though, I'm just not used to anything other than ponies talking...

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

[He nervously tugs on his sleeve.]

Um...someone brought us here?

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

I don't really know much about it. There was just this note in the big house.

[Gestures to the mansion that looms over the island.]

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

Its opposite for me, I didn't know animals could talk.

[He smiles.] That's okay. It sounds like you came from a different place than me though.

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

[He follows the gesture and spots the large mansion. How did he miss that?]

A note? Someone must live on this island then...but, why would they bring people here?

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

No idea, kid. No sign of her, whoever she is. But she's around, and she's gotta have some kind of plan.

[partysoft.insanejournal.com]

Um, well, most animals can't. But where I come from, everypony talks. I guess it's different... here? I've never seen such a strange creature as you before. You seem nice.

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

Did you come from another place too, miss?

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

Oh, I'm a human. Where I'm from, there are a lot of us.

[partysoft.insanejournal.com]

Really? That sounds really strange... I'd like to go there just to see, someday.

... Oh, um, my name's... Fluttershy.

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

...Yeah. Some place real far away. But don't you worry about that. It's not some place you need to think about, okay?

[She doesn't want to explain to this kid that she's from the place where dead people go. That's just morbid.]

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

Um, okay. I-I'm sorry.

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

Oh...maybe I could take you there sometime.

Its nice to meet you Fluttershy, my name is Fletcher. Fletcher Tringham.

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

....Calm down kid, it's fine. I'm not gonna hurt you.

[She grins a bit and pats the sword and badge tied to what's left of her other arm.]

My job's to protect people! I fight monsters! You don't need to be scared of me!

[watersprout.insanejournal.com]

You fight monsters? But, isn't that dangerous? You could get hurt.

[upsideyourhead.insanejournal.com]

[She puases a bit at that. She did get hurt. To the point where she could have sworn she'd been dead just before showing up here. But she shakes her head and puts that grin back on her face. She's a Shiba and she can't let a little thing like dying keep her down!]

Someone's got to. If we don't, then the monsters will hurt people and no one will stop them. If we worry about ourselves, then no one will protect anyone else.

I'm pretty strong though, and I've got plenty of tricks up my sleeve. So I can handle whatever comes at me.

[She means that literally, and to prove it, she lifts up the sleeve that the sword and badge are tied to. Instead of another arm, there is a string of bombs tied up there.]