//------------------------------// // The wooden cabin // Story: Nature's finest // by The Psychopath //------------------------------// My head. I'm still cold. I must have been knocked out by one of the flying debris during the fire. I guess they didn't see me, so I'm stuck outside. I put a hand on the floor, only to feel it comfortable...like a pillow or matress. That dream was horribly painful, so I hesitate to open my eyes, but I finally do. At first, everything is blurred, but the light starts to settle in to reveal that I was in a cabin covered in small animals. My body is still sore, but I try to move anyways. I felt like my joints were rusted. I shoo the tiny things away from me and try to stand, only to fall down with a loud thump. I struggle upwards once more, only to see that my hand was no longer a hand, but a bright green hoof covered in vines and plants. I begin to panic as I scurry my back to the wall and look at my legs, trembling with the entirety of my lost body. Using all my strength to stand up, I manage to pull myself towards a mirror on the wall where some wodden stairs stood, reaching ever higher as my doom seems to have been fulfilled. I was a lime green now as my body had vines slither and crawl across the surface of this coat. My mane and tail were a very dark red and placed in the form of some type of mohawk while the tail looked like some kind of thorned baton albeit still made of hair or fur or whatever it is that that strands are called. Near the sides of my rear legs, the thorns had swirled about and five pink flowerse had blossomed. There were two things that abhorred me me over all: my throat and my eyes. In my throat there were several vines piercing through, and they became red as soon as they approached my neck. As they swayed so, they seemed to twirl out of the back and pass through my main, only to go around my eyes and stop at the end of my muzzle. My eyes, however, had a very dark jungle green in the place of the typical white. While my pupil stayed the same, albeit with a slightly spiky shape now, the iris was much worse. The outlaying color was red, while the inner was a thin white. Once I finally managed to remmber what happened, I began to cry. The one that I had loved aabandoned me. I had met Carla at the university, and she was always there for me. In the time that we both got jobs, we became slightly separated, but only for te duration of the work hours. Every evening we'd meet up with eachother and hang out, talk about our jobs and so on. And here, I learned that it was all just for show. The worst part is that she seemed to adore the situation I was in and was taking great pleasure in torturing me, but she was right. While I was the poor mortal Davy Jones having turned into that octopus creature for not following my duties, she was the goddess Calypso who had been betrayed and finally took her revenge on him. Those little creatures stared at me as I looked at these green hooves upon which the vines pulsated and antagonized me as I began to cry. And then I felt it. They didn't limit themselves to linking me with plants, I was pretty much a plant myself as well. Wiping my tears, I could see that they had turned into some type of nectar-like substance. I was cursed, terribly, but I suppose curses are supposed to be that bad, but this was terrible and torturing. Now I was some sort of equine coupled with a plant, and I was nearly killed by one too! Where the hell was I? Then I heard a strange shambling and ruffling, I turned around to see two more equines. One was purple with a dark bluish mane that seemed to have a purple and pink stripe flowing through them and... a horn?! And the other was a yellow pegasus with a pink mane! "Oh no! Not again! Stay away from me! You've hurt me enough as is!" I screamed as I scampered towards the exit, still incapable of walking like this. Unfortunately, my back pains were still in effect, so I tumbled down. "Oh no! Please, don't move." the pegasus shouted...somewhat quietly. " You're still wounded. It would be bad if you continued to try and move." I wouldn't listen. I wasn't going to believe her. How was it even possible for a...pony(?) to talk? Let alone have wings. As I began pulling myself towards the door, those little critters hopped on my back and managed to hold me down who knows how. Then, I felt myself become envelopped in some sort of purple aura and be gently levitated to the mount of cushions that I was on earlier. I saw those two walk towards me with weird looks on their faces. As my heart began to race, I tried to dig myself a little bunker under the pillows, but the animals wouldn't let me move. "Okay, I know what you want. Just kill me already! Torture me! Do whatever you want, but do it quick. This pain is unbearable." I shouted. I noticed that the two ponies thrust their heads back in with a look of confusion. The purple one then spoke: "Fluttershy, what is it saying?" "I don't know. All I can hear is the sound of wind coming through his mouth." "Yeah. It's still fascinating. It looks like a pony crossed with a plant. It looks amazing." "I know, but look how the vines on it are piercing through its skin. That looks very painful." "Maybe it's normal?" "Normal?!" I try and yell "This isn't normal! I'm not what you see in front of you. Get off me." I shout at the animals, who immediately jump off. I look at them in surprise, and try to run away, but I'm held back by what I could suspect as being mares. "Nono. I said don't move. It's for your own good." the pegasus told me. "I wonder if it has a family or if it really is from the plants." Family? Oh yeah...My eyes start to water up as I recall that my curse prevents me from ever seeing my family again. I begin to sob that nectar substance with my hooves to my face. I felt something soft and comforting wrap itself around me and start to rock me. It was that "Fluttershy" character. She was humming and lulling me to sleep who knows how. "Wow, Fluttershy. I didn't know that you could do that." "I've had to do this with some of the little ones when they cry or can't sleep." Somehow, I was really falling asleep, and I could feel that the vines were loosening too. As I begn to fall asleep, something I really needed, I heard whispering echoing everywhere. It was getting louder and louder, and I finally slammed my hooves to my ears and pushed them down, a very strange feeling. It was getting louder and louder but suddenly stopped when I heard a familiar giggle. I looked to the door to see that Carla was there, or, atleast, her true form. She was holding up a very thick and sharp sword adorned a maniacal face. "I'll get ya." she said. My pupils shrunk, I screamed, and I instinctively ran out the door even if it was clumbsy running. I scampered away as best I could while that sadistic bitch was running after me. How did the other two not see her? Even they were chasing me, but not for the same reasons. I saw a nearby town, so I galopped quickly towards it, my spine using its best efforts to sustain the pressure. I don't think I've ever strained myself this badly. I shoved through several more ponies, all who yelled at me until Carla sliced through the building next to them and plowed through it, tossing rubble everywhere. "Stay away from me you crazy bitch!" "Nononono! You must be punished. I'll deal with this the way I want to." "Aren't I punished enough? You broke my heart, I'll never see my family again, I can't talk, I'm constantly sore. What more do you want?!" "Your slow and painful death!" "Ahhh!" The exploding pieces of building erupted everywhere constantly and I was running towards a pink pony who had its back turned, until it turned around. It was a mare. She was standing on her hind-legs, was wearing a red bandana, had what looked like a cigar in her mouth, and was holding...a flame-thrower? The hell? "Go away eveil spirit!" "What?!" Carla roared. Suddenly, a torrent of flame flew into the air and engulfed Carla who began to scream psychotically. When the pink mare finished expelling the flames, everyone got to see, a strange ball of fire moving about wildly, until it hopped far away. "There ya go." she said as she chomped through what I could now deduce as being a chocloate bar in her mouth. "Thanks." "Huh? I'll take that as a 'thanks'." "Damn. That's true. They don't understand me." The other two ran up to us, while I looked at this pink one in confusion. How could she see Carla if the others couldn't? "Pinkie, what was that thing that you lit?" the unicorn was panicking. "I don't know. I was just testing a new toy I got." she gave a wide smile. I don't know why, but I was sure that she was lying. "By the way, whose this?" "I don't know. Fluttershy found it after it leapt out of the forest. It was being chased by the Ivamora." "Ooooo. Scary. So, does he want a party?" "It's a he?" "Yeah! Can't you tell?" I looked at the other two look at eachother in confusion, then I showed them that I was pissed off at that remark. "I couldn't. The vines block everything so even looking at his face, I couldn't figure it out." Fluttershy answered. "Well, let's give him a small party. Everypony isn't here, and both Rainbow Dash and Rarity are gone for the week, so..." Pinkie looked slightly dissappointed. "Oh well. A party is a party!" What have I gotten myself into?