//------------------------------// // The Pain // Story: Making the Best of it // by Flame6666 //------------------------------// Making the Best of it The Pain Deep in the Everfree Forest, a brilliant golden light is shining through the darkness of the beautiful night and in its warm glow lay a being not from this world. After a moment the light dissipated and this being began to move. Not knowing what happened, he lifts up his head from the cold earth below and opens his eyes and thoughts of panic begin to rush into his head. "Where am I, how did I git here, why am I in a forest, I live in the city!" Starting to hyperventilate as the panic takes over his mind, Anthony hears a sound of breaking sticks behind him, "What was that?!?" wide eyed now as he rushes himself up and runs to the nearest tree with his back turned against it, waiting for this... this thing to pop out. With a few more shakes of a near by bush, his nerves alone made him ready to jump out of his skin, this terrifying... small... cute bunny hops out. Anthony's nerves quickly settle and a sigh of relief comes with it, "Thank God... you almost gave me a heart attack little guy." With that small scare over he realizes that he needs to take account of the situation. "Okay think, where am I? The closest forest to my home it like 100, 200 or so miles away, so there is no way that I walked here, so that must mean that someone brought me here. Did they hit my head or something? I don't feel any pain and... wait... I still have my bags? If someone did kidnap me and put me in a forest then why not take it and sell my equipment? And now that I think of it I felt warm when I got up but, its the dead of night and I'm freezing now. Okay first thing first, need to find somewhere to stay warm." With that, he proceeds to go southwest after a look though the tree tops to see the moon's brilliant light. The trek was not easy, every few yards he would trip, stumble, get whacked in the face by a low branch, and the darkness of the forest wasn't making it any easier. He was about to go into a fit of anger when he found a hollowed out tree that was just big enough for him to get into, it wasn't much, but better than nothing. Once he got as comfortable as he could, he passed out, not only from the exhaustion, but from all the cuts and bruises that pained him, sucking all the strength that he had left. It looked about mid day when he finally got the strength to get up. As he got up the pain in his stomach caused him to almost fall over, needles to say he was starving but the lack of knowledge of surviving the forest made him second guess anything that may look like food, he might be starving but hes not stupid enough to eat something he knows nothing about. As he continued walking southwest, holding his stomach the whole way, he heard something or someone!, "This sucks... I'm going to die out here... wait a minute, is that... is that singing?" "LALALA I HAVE A BEAUTIFUL MUSTACHE LALALA"* Anthony ran as fast as he was able to get to this voice, he could see a raging river past the trees, once he got there the singing stopped and no one was in view, "What! But... but I heard SOMEONE..... I know I did." a single tear went done his face quickly followed by more, but then he noticed the water starting to bulge on the surface, like something big was about to come out. Just then a giant purple sea serpent came busting out saying... or rather singing, "MUUUUSTAAAAACHE!" Anthony's face became white as a sheet and tried to run back into the forest but found that he couldn't... he was petrified by fear, not only from the sea serpent but even more so, he realized where he was, "No... no... no no no no no this CAN"T BE HAPPENING IT CAN"T BE! he started to go into a panic attack, shifting into the fetal position. The sea serpent sees this and approaches this foreign... thing, "Uhm... hello, you there... are you OK? The serpent gets closer to try to comfort the new creature, but Anthony, not in his right mind, crawls away from the serpent yelling, "BACK, BACK, GET AWAY YOU DAMN MONSTER!" The sea serpent jets back and tears started to creep down his face, "I'm... I'm not a.. a mon... monster!! I'm.. I'm... beautiful" he weepingly said. He starting to sob heavily, "I'M HIDEOUS, I'M DISGUSTING, I..I..I sniff... I'M UGLY!!!" The sobbing serpent laid his head down by the side of the still raging river. Anthony hearing the serpents sobbing, cautiously looked over to verify, he said under his breath, "Did I... did I make him cry? I didn't mean to do.. that..." then he thought, "Maybe I can get him to stop and help me? After all if I really am... HERE... then theirs only one place I can go." standing up and taking a few deep breathes to steady himself to ask, "Uhm... excuse me... I'm... sorry if I made you cry. Uhm... is there anyway.. I can help?" "sniff... No I'm... I'm... hideous... you can't help that. sniff" "Shoot I really messed him up... how did that one pony make him feel better?... I got it!" then he said, "Uhm... I didn't mean... to call you a monster... the thing is, I have bad eyes and... I thought you... were going to eat me. Although from a closer look... you look amazing!" "I..sniff...I do? "Yes you do... that amazing head of hair... those beautiful purple scales... and don't even get me started on that manly mustache." Anthony assured him. "Your.. sniff.. your right I do I DOOOO HAVE A MANLY MUUUUUSTAAAACHE!!!" The sea serpent sprang back to life "Thank you SOOOO MUCH for the complement, now if I may ask what IS your name FINE SIR? I am STEVEN... Steven Magnet and it is SOOO nice to meet you!" Anthony now a little nervous responds "Uhm... m-my name is Anthony... and its... its nice to meet you... Steven. Uhm.. I'm sorry to cut this short but... can you... help me out?" "SURE what do you need friend?" "You see... I've been lost in this forest since... last night... and I have no idea which way to get out of here." "Is that all? I would be MORE than happy to help you SIR ANTHONY!!! All you have to do is cross this river and head straight that way and you can't miss it!! Here I'll even help you cross! Steven brought up his tail and gestures Anthony to climb on, Anthony cautiously does so and Steven gently lets him down on the other side, "And There you are sir Anthony, now just head that way and you'll come across the town." "Uhm... thank you Steven... if... if I ever come back this way... I'll say hi. So... see you later?" Anthony turns around and starts walking in the direction that the sea serpent Steven pointed him in. "Yes, see you later my FRIEND and I hope that our paths may cross again SOMEDAY!" Steven waves at Anthony until he can be seen no more. After about 15, 20 minutes of walking it was back to the same routine as last night, every few yards he would trip, stumble, or get whacked in the face by a low branch, and this time around he couldn't blame the dark of the night. It was like this for most of the walk, but this time the pain was even more intense, the cuts deeper, the bruises blacker, and the pain of hunger ever growing. He was about to give up, give in to the pain and quit but, he saw it... an end to this forest, so he ran... or rather limped over, as fast as he could out of the this forest of pain and death. As he passed his finish line, exhausted and weak, he collapsed and fell out of consciousness and laid there... motionless... ---------------Authors Notes--------------- Well that was fun and hard to wright since Steven was only in one episode it was hard getting his personality down --Extra Notes-- *I couldn't think of a mustache song so I'm sorry for that park