In Manehattan there is a strange ape-like creature that is being held in a lab. Its injuries bear the distinctive marks of illegal sport hunting by exotic game poachers.

What's strange is that there's an entire section in books on natural life about this creature designating its kind maned apes. What's even stranger is that there are accounts throughout Equestria's history about maned apes turning up.

The maned ape, given the moniker Big Red by the scientists holding it, is given over to the crown and transferred to Ponyville for safe keeping. The Mane 6 comb through Equestria's historical texts and oral account to try and find where the maned apes come from.

This is an HiE story that starts in Season 1 shortly after Apple Buck Season.

EDIT: 6-8-2022 Featured! Woo-hoo!
18-202023 Featured! Woo-hoo!

In ancient times, in the ancient world of N’hir Vhanna, there was a prophecy written amongst the scripts of old. It states that six beings of power will save the world and smite the tyrant that lives within. Six beings that would bear the titles of Heroes, of legendary status amongst men. Six brave souls who would save the world of N’hir Vhanna and rid the evil once and for all.

"For all shall end with peace and tranquility, and the lands of N’hir Vhanna will be set free from the reigns of tyranny. And the lands will be merry, and bells shall be rung, for the great heroes have come."

Or at least, that's what should have happened...

And now, the lands of a distant world of friendship and magic harbors one that the N'hirvhannian's fear. One they called the Scourge. Will their lands suffer as did the N'hirvhannians? Will they live in fear with the desolation incarnate? One will never really know.

(Hello! Shroomkin here! I am just a travelling mushroom, here to present thee my first story! I do hope you enjoy it as I have enjoyed writing it. Have a nice day!)

Twilight may have had a bit too much to drink one night and accidentally brought a human named Arc from Earth to Equestria. They have much to teach one another. That is... if they will accept him into their society. Time will tell if humans and ponies can truly live together in harmony.

BE SURE TO START WITH "VOLUME 1 - CHAPTER 1"!

This is quite a long story I originally wrote for my wife as a Christmas present two years ago. Work on it has continued over the past year, and just recently hit 1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 words. I'll upload it chapter by chapter as fast as I can translate them. The Equestrian Odyssey contains many characters from the show and comics, as well as a number of original characters I dreamed up to fill various roles. I hope you enjoy the first volume of my first ever story as much as my wife and I did.

One of my readers liked the story so much that they decided to write their own alternate version of events. Their story can be found here...

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/546350/an-alternate-arc