Creature of the Everfree

by PhoelynFabulous


Surviving

She woke up hungry and cold.
The filly had found an umbrella-like leaf to lay under in protection of the rain, which had stopped sometime in the night. She also slept with her disintegrating shield on, in case any monsters tried to attack her. They must have know about the wooden wolf's defeat, because no monster came. She groaned, and rubbed her stomach. She hadn't quite thought about what she would eat in the forest, though she did know that she had more options being an omnivore. Yet another reason to be called a monster. Ponies are herbivores. She got up, and searched for anything to eat. She could also eat poisonous things, since she was immune to them. She learned that when a bully attempted a prank involving poison joke in her salad. When she was never affected, the bully told everyone, making her even more of a freak. She trotted over to a black flower with dark green tipped petals, and sniffed it. She had never sniffed anything that smelled better. She assumed it was a poisonous flower, considering it's colors and scent-trap, and ate it anyway. It wasn't very filling, but it also didn't kill her, which proved further that she was immune to all poison.

The cure for all poisons, infections, diseases, and more come from this filly. Being immune to poison of all kinds will save ponykind from anything poisonous, venomous, infection... The cure for life depends on you giving this filly to us for science.

She was suddenly very glad she had chosen to jump out that window.

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After a long walk through the forest, she had harvested enough plants to be a breakfast. She had walked back to her umbrella-leaf and prepared to eat, when suddenly, a strange sound filled her ears. It was almost like a purr, but like a bug buzzing at the same time. She looked down, and saw a small bug-like creature staring at her food. It was like a ball with big bug eyes and dragonfly wings. Hello? she spoke into it's mind to make sure it understood her. She read it's mind, so she could understand it as well.
Fooooood, food food. Hello. I want that food. Please let me have the food. Foooooooooood. Food. I'm cute, so you need to give me the food. Food food food food. Friends. Friends from food. Give me the food. Please?

She listened to the strange bug. She realized that this bug did not care about her. It wanted her harvest that it took an hour to get in the first place. No, I need this food. Please go away. The bug flew up to her and made an adorable face.

Please... please, I need food. Food for friends, food for me. Fooood?

it said in a pleading tone. "No. I will not give you my harvest. Fly away or YOU will join it." She said out loud carelessly.

I'm POISONOUS! You can't eat me! Please don't eat me! I just want some food...

"Fly. Away." The bug finally flew away, scared that she would actually eat it. She ate the food she had gathered up, and then began a little project she was planning. She did not want to live under a leaf, so she would build a house in the forest. She gathered twigs and sticks and grass, and after multiple hours, when Celestia began to set the sun, she had finished a little shack, using her umbrella leaf as the roof material. She finally walked into her new home, and decided something.

Her mother had never given her a name. Never. So, the filly got sick of calling herself, "me" as her name. So, she finally decided what she would call herself forever. Her name...


Was Everfree.