The adventures of Arvald in Equestria

Chapter one
the arrival.


	It was an average day in ponyville, the sun shining, the birds singing, and everypony just generally going about their day. Twilight Sparkle was just leaving the quills and sofa store when she heard a loud, high pitched scream, “what int eh name of Celestia was that?” Twilight ran towards the screaming, only to find everypony locking themselves indoors, slamming windows shut, and just generally acting silly such as the first time Twi saw Zecora.

Twilight looked around the town square, which was now completely empty save for herself. After a moment, she spotted what was causing all the commotion, a very strange looking creature walking into the middle of the town square. Twilight had never seen anything like it, it was around six and a half feet tall, stood erect on two legs, much like a chimp but with a straighter back, hair covering only its head and face, and strangely enough, wearing clothes, a black shirt, a flatcap and some kind of skirt patterned in crisscrossing vertical and horizontal bands of greens and browns.

The creature seemed to be severely injured, it had a nasty gash across the side of its face, completely caked with dried blood, its right arm was hanging limp, as though broken, and it was sauntering and wobbling as if drunk, with a far off look on its face. The creature finally stopped, and in a distinctive masculine voice said “help” before falling over and passing out.

Twilight stood there shocked for a moment, not knowing what to do until her wits came about her again, and she ran towards, him apparently, at full gallop. She stopped a few feet short, just Incase he came to and decided he was still in danger. Using her horn, she probed him with her magic to try and get a feel for what was wrong, “lets see, two cracked ribs, right arm broken in three places, and..oh no, severe internal bleeding  in his abdomen” twilight muttered to herself before yelling out “help, somepony help me, hes badly hurt” the only response was shutters being cracked open, and eyes peering out. “somepony! Anypony! Please, go get nurse redheart!”, finally, after what seemed like forever, rarity burst out of her boutique shouting behind her “don't worry twilight, I will be back with the nurse in just a few minutes”.




	“where in the fucking hell am I”, I stood there, more confused than I have ever been, “and why am I not dead?”. Just a few moments ago, I was out for a walk when a fist sized orb of light just appeared in front of me, and me being the inquisitive idiot that I am, touched it. For what must have been  an eternity, my world was filled with pain and blinding light, I wasn't able to breath, I couldn't think, the only thing that existed was the excruciating pain wracking through my body and mind.

Just as abruptly as the pain began, it stopped. It took a few minutes, but my vision finally came back to me and I found myself surrounded, not by the flat farmland I was walking in, but by tall, menacing looking trees. The silence was complete, I couldn't hear any animals, no wind rustling leaves, only silence. Small beams of weak sunlight filtered through the thick canopy, thankfully giving me enough lght to take stock of myself and my surroundings.
“so” i muttered to myself  “ether I decided taking a huge hit of acid was a good idea before I left, or im dead. fuck”. “ok, lets see if I cant find where the hell I am”, I pulled my phone out of my sporran, no signal, of course, so I tried to get a gps location, no gps signal, god dammit. then I remembered that my phone has a built in magnetometer, so I pulled up the compass app, and to my surprise, the compass was spinning wildly. “huh, that's new”, I put my phone away and took stock of what I had on me. Two small boxes of matches, my cigar cutter, my cigar tube with one very nice gurkah grand reserve inside, though im not sure how much help that will be just now. As well I had my phone, wallet, keyring with small multitool, my belt knife, and a small serrated punch knife tucked into one of the pleats of my kilt, just incase.