//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Where The Hell Am I // Story: Equestrian 'Hero' // by InsaneMan //------------------------------// 2 years later... I looked around, making sure no one saw me, and entered what used to be my home. I still had horrible memories of this place.  I looked around to see the place was abandoned; graffiti on the walls, wallpaper peeling off, a few rats making a home in the garbage. Honestly, I didn’t really care about that right now, I needed to get my stuff. I grabbed a backpack and started putting stuff in. I was a bit surprised that some of my stuff was still here. I grabbed some food, some clothes, a couple books, portable games, happy no one took them, a photo album of my family and animals, and I grabbed an amulet with a picture of my family. I shoved a dusty phone in my pocket and continued on. I also took my brother´s grappling hook, just in case I needed to escape. During the 2 years of being away, I learned how to use fire more efficiently. I smiled at the memory as I put the amulet around my neck and looked at my window. I noticed something in the corner of my eye and walked towards it. It was some kind of glowing orb. I picked it up and shrugged, ‘whatever it is, it’s mine now.’ It then started glowing brighter and brighter in my hands. For the next few seconds I saw nothing but white. The bright glow subsided and I could see again. But something was off, why was everything passing by so fast? I finally realized that I was falling down, really fast. I start screaming for my life as I plunge down from the sky. How I got here? No clue. But I was fearing for my life. As I was falling, I see some kind of city made out of clouds. I didn’t think much of it as I kept plummeting to the ground. I could see the ground and the trees around it coming closer and clouds passing  me by. I scream at the top of my lungs for anyone to save me. As I closed my eyes, bracing for the impact, I felt something tug at my backpack. I slowly open my eyes and notice I was hanging on a tree by my backpack. I saw an apple on the tree and realized it was an apple tree and, looking around, there was a lot of them around here. The area looked like it was a farm; a red barn, a silo, another barn, and some kind of house. I look down and saw buckets under the tree, ‘probably for the apples,’ I thought. I closed my eyes, trying to think of how to get down, when I felt the tree vibrate, almost knocking me off. I looked around and saw no one, which was weird since it felt like someone kicked it. I didn’t have time to look around because my face soon became best friends with the dirt. I groaned, ‘this just keeps getting better,’ I thought. I got up, wiping the dirt off me and spitting it out, and saw an orange horse staring at me. It looked like a mare with white freckles, green eyes, a brown stetson on her head, and 3 apples on the side of her plot. Her mane and tail was done in a, well, ponytail. We stared at each other for awhile, not moving a muscle. It wasn’t until I sensed something behind me and turned around, just in time to dodge a red hoof to the face. I moved to the side to see a large red stallion glaring at me. He then tried to tackled me but, I quickly moved out of the way. This was going on for awhile until I felt something tie around my body. I looked down to see rope around me, then was then dragged to the ground. Apparently, during our fight the orange one grabbed some rope and wrapped it around my body. I wanted to burn these horse away, but I thought better of it. Both of the horses looked down at me with curiosity and were ready if I attacked. What next surprised me as the orange trotted towards me and spoke. ¨Now what in tarnation are you doing on our farm,¨ she said, looking straight in my eyes. ¨I fell from the sky when I touched a strange orb,¨ I said, still unsure what the hell was going on. She stared at me for a while, creeping me the fuck out. ¨What is yer name?¨ she asked, still staring at me. I gulped, ¨Trystyn Johnson. What is your name?¨ I asked. She told me her name was Applejack and the red ones name was Big Mac. I was about to ask more questions but something hard hit me in the head. The last thing I saw was a rainbow blur and AJ screaming, ¨Rainbow Dash,¨ before I blacked out. AJ ¨RAINBOW DASH!!¨ I yelled, looking at the sprawled out Pegasus. Rainbow Dash just crashed into Trystyn, who I was interrogating, and knocked him out. I looked at her with a glare as she started getting up. She looked down to see Trystyn on the ground and stared at him with wide eyes. ¨You knocked ´im out while I was talking ta´ ´im,¨ I said, still aggravated. I looked down at him, he looked peaceful when he was knocked out. RD explained she was trying to do a trick and got distracted, causing her to spiral out of control. I just rolled my eyes and looked down at the human, named Trystyn, again. ´Wonder what he's dreaming about,´ I thought. Dream time… The next thing I knew was walking down a dark hallway of, what looked like, a castle. There was broken windows, torn up curtains and carpet, doors that were either chipped or just completely destroyed, and it looked as though the castle was abandoned for years, maybe more. ‘Where the fuck am I?’ I thought, walking through the castle. Last thing I remember was talking to the horse, known as Applejack, and then I was knocked out. “When I find out you hit me, I’m going to have a talk with them,” I said under my breath. As I walked forward, I thought back to before my life went to hell. During that time I knew something more about life; how horrible it could be, how unfair it could be, and how you could lose the ones you love in a blink of an eye. I wiped the tears out of my eyes and kept going. I look around again and found out exactly where I was, this stupid fucking dream. I kept having this dream over and over again, not knowing what it meant. My family kept saying to forget about it, ‘it’s just a dream,’ they would say, but I kept trying to find out what it meant. I eventually got tired of trying after a while, so every time I have this dream I just walked to the end to get out of this dream. “God dammit, this dream again,” I grunted, walking a bit faster now. While I was walking, I noticed a glowing door, ‘that wasn’t there before,’ I thought, walking towards it. On further inspection, the door was a dark blue, had a golden doorknob, a white aura surrounding it, and a symbol on the door, it also seemed to be the only door untouched. I saw other doors but they were surrounded by some kind of black aura and wouldn’t open when I tried them. I looked at the symbol, it looked like some kind of comet about to crash into something. ‘Well, this is new,’ I thought, reaching for the knob, ‘new is good, right?’ When I opened the door, all I saw was some kind of void. I saw nothing but black and turned around to continue walking again. But, before I could start walking, I was forcefully sucked into the room, falling into the abyss. The last thing I said before plummeting to my ‘death’ was, “FUUUUUUUUUU…"