Left right left right left right...the quickly executed dodges had started become habit rather than uncoordinated turns. Derpy was in a panic trying to escape her chasers. The alleyways seemed to be able to go on for forever. So too did the seemingly unending energy her pursuers had.
It was becoming more than apparent that they were catching up quickly; as such, Derpy had to come up with something fast or she would be caught no doubt. Looking ahead of her, she saw an opening from the looks of it. A small gap in the space between two well-placed buildings; small, but it could be her only hope.
With no time for second thoughts, she picked up her pace. SNAP! A wave of pain shot from Derpy’s left side. She couldn’t exactly see where the pain originated, but it sounded like her wing retracted itself. I won’t be able to fly myself out of this she thought. The pain would have to wait, for now she needed to escape. Taking every ounce of strength, she dove into the crevasse.
She made it!
Still no time to stop, she dashed to the end of the gap and dove straight into the opening. Searching her surroundings in quick motions of swiftly turning her head, it looked like she had exited the shopping district. A sigh of relief made its way out of Derpy, exhausted but alive.
It didn’t look like her pursuers were taking chase anymore, but she had to be sure. A few tentative steps to peer over the edge of the gap told her what she wanted. They weren’t there anymore...good.
Laying her head down in relief, Derpy started making her way through whatever portion of town she was now in. It looked like a nice neighboring district. There appeared to be a school in the far distance, but apart from that it was a pretty quaint area. There were some gardens in her general location as well as all over the place. The word homey was coming to mind as she passed by some floral pots and flower shops.
GRRRRUUUUUAAAAAAA
The loud rumbling startled Derpy as she took cover behind a particularly small potted vase. Peering behind it in shivers, she tried to find whatever caused that horrible noise. Noticing that no one was in sight, she became confused. Looking over to her left, right, behind her, up, and directly underneath she still found nothing that could have caused it.
GRRRRUUUUUAAAAAAA
Once more the noise came from apparently nowhere. Instead of being confused this time around, she started to get annoyed. The sound had no reason for being there. Just thinking about it made her—
Wait a minute...
Pulling her bottom lip over her top, she scratched the underside of her chin in a knowing manner. This would take a risk, but she was prepared for the consequences if the noise was what she thought it was. Nipping at the bag over her shoulder, she started searching for one of its contents. Perking her ears up, it appeared she found what she was searching for.
A muffin.
Carefully eyeing the muffin, she brought it down to chest level.
GRRRRUUUUUAAAAAAA
Her calculations being correct, she devoured it in one swift motion. “Of course I am hungry. I haven’t had a muffin in...” She started to trail off in thought at how long ago her previous meal was. It seemed ages ago, but may have in fact just been that morning. Scratching her head from the overextending of her brainpower, she decided to shut down and continue on forward.
She had been following what seemed to be the most straightforward path for the past few minutes without much thought. There had been something nagging on the back of her mind for a while now. It started after she had made her escape from the Cakes, but it was relevant. Where is everypony else? Surely there were more than just two other competitors, she contemplated. In fact, she was pretty sure she saw a good deal greater amount at the town square when this all began.
From her calculations earlier, she had thought that the war would be taking place in the streets of the town, but from what she has seen so far, there has been little disturbance in terms of actual damage to property. There weren’t any traces that anything had actually occurred.
The events from previous had started to take their toll on Derpy as she sat down near a bench in the vicinity. Letting everything finally hang over her, she decided she needed to take a look at the injury to her wing she received. Trying to lift it at first, it barely lifted an inch up. The extent of the damage wasn’t too bad, but she definitely wasn’t going to be flying her way out of any situation anytime soon.
After sitting around for a bit more to collect the rest of her scattered thoughts, she picked herself up and started moving further down her way. With really know way to know where to head off to; the best bet would be farther into town. This was a war after all, and she needed to get into the fray of things at some point. With this new profound sense of commitment in mind, she shuffled away from the garden area and headed into deeper into the vastly unknown district.
The sun shining high above was putting dense rays of light onto the purple-striped parasol. “What a nice, sunny day. Am I right Blight?” Commented the alicorn nonchalantly.
“Yes Princess it is” The guard Blight responded in same fashion. He lazily held stood watch over the Princess as was his duty. He had to make sure that neither of the Princesses was in danger of an attack, a trip. Pretty much an injury of any kind he had to prevent. Every now and again he would move to the side of either end of the roof, so as to keep watch for any intruder.
Princess Celestia was cheerily sipping from a banana smoothie as she took in the rays. She wouldn’t be able to really work up a tan, but it did bring her a pleasant sensation. How she put it would be the feeling of laying in cooling magma...or something to that extent.
Taking another sip of her drink, she turned her head slightly and removed her sunglasses. “I wonder how everypony is doing. I would swear they were all hiding from each other.” Acting on this thought, she decided to walk over to one of the edges and survey what was happening.
Forming a frustrated frown, she found that her thoughts weren’t as correct as she had them suspected, but they weren’t entirely wrong either. There were indeed fights breaking out; muffins being tossed from across large distances. There were not however massive outbreaks between large groups. Peeved at this Celestia started up, “I believe I need to take hold of this and see what happens.”
With a swift motion of her horn, she produced a small amount of magic and shot upwards into the sky; soon after small patches of clouding could be seen in the mist of the sunshine. Rainclouds.
Happily content with what she did, Celestia decided to retract back into her chair and sip from her drink. Curious, Blight decided to question what Celestia did.
“Uh my Princess, what exactly did you do?”
“Ah my dear Blight, I just stirred up some fun is all.” She jubilantly called out.
Deciding on not questioning his Princess further, he went back to his previous position of scouting.
Oh yes...just a LITTLE fun.