When I came too I was greeted with....my ordinary, basic four walled bedroom. With a deep sigh I rubbed my eyelids as I stood up from my swivel chair. With my arms over my head I popped both of them and my back, all three making a satisfying and refreshing PoP! Placing a hand on my neck I started to silently mutter to myself in a very sleep deprived tone,
“That’s what I get for staying up too late surfing the web,”
While this was going on my body on automatic pilot as I stumbled to the bathroom to do an inquiry with the Porcelain Office. At least I was planning on it until I heard something I didn’t think I would ever hear during winter, bird song.
To give you a better clue why this was weird was that one, it was winter when I last checked. Two, I live in Alaska, so with the occasional raven here or there, the amount of song birds are zilch, nada, zip. So with my curiosity growing, a dangerous habit I have had recently, to a nearby window in my room. What came next definitely eliminated any and all sleep from my mind better than any pick-me ups.
Green. The first thought that my mind was the word green, honestly, I hardly ever saw this much green unless I was trying to be miles away from any signs of civilization.
What caught my attention after the sheer amount of green was how. Dark The atmosphere the forest seemed to be exudeing, it was so thick a knife would have been able to cut through it.
Honestly I was left in a stupor, another trend I seem to be fond of at the moment, vainly rubbing my eyes in hopes of bringing back some form of reality back. Of course that failed so I was left with only one answer to my current development, Discord was real and so was his deal, meaning....
“Holy Spoot! I’m in Equstria! Land of little ponies with Big problems!” Clutching my head in my hands, the full implication of my statement impacting with all the force of a bombshell.
Honestly flip-flopping between excited and nervous, or as a certain pink mare once said ‘Nervcited’, I leaned against the window sill for support as my legs were replaced by jelly at this point from the startling discovery.
‘Ok, since I’m in what appears to be a forest it’d be safe to assume I’m in The Everfree Forest, the scariest place in Equstria, or at least I think it was.’ With a calming breath..Ok a lot of calming breaths! Don’t judge! Anyway I finally calmed down and I had a plan...Try to find out where I was exactly and how close I was to Ponyville or Zecora’s hut. That brought an excited grin to my face as the prospect of meeting the rhyming zebra herself was a very heartening one.
Of course I wasn’t going to just run out into the woods swing as how there’re a lot of critters in these woods that wood love to make me into a nice snack. With this in mind, a mental check list with all the things I would need.
“I’m most definitely going to need my backpack with some food and water, as I don’t know how long it will take to reach Zecora’s or Ponyville,” Then the thought of the critters that dwell within the forest.
“Better bring the my dad’s old Mossberg Intl 802 Plinkster rifle, just in case of a wild incounter.” Nodding to myself I went about grabbing my pack and filling it with the supplies that would help me. Just when I was about to zip up my pack, a final vital suply that I would need.
“ I need my first-aid kit! How stupid of me, that’s emergency supplies 101.” With that reminder I ran out of the bathroom and rummaged in the medicine cabinet for about a minute before the elusive bugger of a first-aid kit was finally revealed.
“Gotcha. Geez, I really got to organize and clean this place up when I get back.” Shrugging and with the item quested for, I returned to the bedroom. Once the first-aid kit was placed into the modest black back pack, I sipped it shut and shouldered it on.
With backpack in-tow I went to my closet, where my dad’s rifle was hanging on the wall. “Time to dust you off old pall, we got one heck of an adventure before us.”
Taking the gun gently off the wall, the familiar weight brought a smile off bitter-sweet nostalgia.
“Just like old times,” a small tear formed in my eye as I pocketed some bullets and magazines. “Alright,” softly murmuring to myself, “Let’s see if I can’t meet the neighbors.” With confidence that I really should have, I marched out of the house into the thick foliage that is The Everfree Forest.
Or I would have if I didn’t hear raged gasping behind a tree that was about five feet,(about a meter or so) the kind of breathing that’s associated with intense running.
“I guess I can check out what’s going on over there instead.” With caution in mind, I aproached the tree as slowly as possible.
From what I could tell, the gasping was similar to a human’s...Or a pony’s. My concerns for the maybe pony’s well-being grew very large and I searched around the trunk of the tree until I saw her.
Ok guys? You know how we gush about how the ponies all look so adorable and cuddleable from drawings? Yeah, they were somehow cuter than any picture could capture.
Honestly, when I saw Zecora in all her glory, I had to bite back a d’aw after seeing her. If she wasn’t looking at me like I was some crazy and or evil beast ready to attack her, I’d pick her up in a hug.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t the important thing, seeing as how Zecora was trying to get back on all fours with a look in her eyes that just screamed fear.
“Oh beast of uncertain origin, please don’t allow you terrible tortures to begin.” This made me blink at her heart wrenching plee. ‘
She’s terrified...I better calm her down.’ Clearing my throat I started to speak in her own style, rhyme.
“Pony of striped coloration, you need not fear, for I have a happy disposition.” With a smile as pleasant as possible, I held out my right hand to her,
“I simply wish to offer aid, to you who appears to be in pain.”
That’s when the terror that the poor zebra was feeling became too much and fainted.
“Well,” I said to myself, “ That could have gone better.”