“Canterlot? Seriously?” I said incredulously. If there was going to be a war, Canterlot had to be the worst place to go. All it would take is one of the magical supports gone, and bang, Canterlot is sliding down the mountain. But then if all the unicorns in Equestria were there guarding it, it might be a little safer.
“Yes. Blueblood’s orders” The royal guard replied. I don’t think he knows what a rhetorical question is.
All of the unicorns in the Ponyville school were rounded up in this classroom. Surprisingly it wasn’t that crowded. Most of them were already in Canterlot. Things would have been a whole lot simpler if we could just catch a train there, but no, we have to wait for a unicorn strong enough to teleport us there thanks to Applejacks stupid new rule that unicorns weren’t allowed in Ponyville. She didn’t even give us the day to pack up our things.
After five minutes of sulking in the corner of the room, I’m bored. Since all of the games in the classroom were educational and boring, and the royal guard had confiscated my camera since I kept taking photos of him, I had nothing to do. I decided I should at least try to talk to some of the other unicorns in the room. Not wanting to get up, I shouted to grab the attention of the unicorn next to me.
“Hey you! Bluey! Come over here!”
“What? Why?” The blue and black unicorn asked.
“I’m bored, I want somepony to talk to. Will you talk to me?”
“Okay, sure. What do you want to talk about?” She asked.
“I dunno. Wait! I do know. What’s your name and special talent and what do you think of this whole situation?”
“Well, my name’s Lightning and my special talent is making ponies smile” the filly that I now knew was called Lightning said.
“My name’s Dewdrop. My talent’s photography. And I think this whole war with the Pegasi and Earth ponies is pretty dumb. I mean, what’s the point, what will we get if we beat the pegasi? What will the earth ponies get if they beat us?” I say
“I agree” Lightning says. “And why do we have to go to Canterlot anyway? I just want to stay here with my friends, who happen to be earth ponies.”
“Yeah, I don’t want to go to Canterlot either. I just moved here from Canterlot, and now I have to go back. Oh well. My sister’ll be happy. She didn’t want to move from Canterlot in the first place, but I’d got kicked out of all the schools there and she thinks I just wouldn’t be good enough at magic to go to Celestia’s school. Won’t even let me try out for magic kindergarten cause she’s ashamed that I’m better at magic than her.” I say, but I stop before I start ranting about my awful sister.
“I’m sure your sister isn’t that bad” Lightning offers.
“You haven’t met her. She’s awful to me and she was mean to my friends - thats why I have none - But she stuck up to her teachers and acted so perfect around them. No wonder they were so shocked that I was her sister. Anyway. Neither of us want to go to Canterlot, so why don’t we not?”
“Wouldn’t we get in trouble? Anyway, where would we go?”
“I don’t know. We’d probably get in trouble if we got caught, but it’s worth it if we don’t have to go to Canterlot”
“Okay, but if we get caught, I’m saying you made me come with you. When will we go?”
“Soon, I just need to grab one thing. I’ll be back in a sec”
I got up and wandered over to the burly guard.
“Hey, can I have my camera back!” I yell.
“No” He grunts
“You sure? What if I tell you about a secret spell to allow unicorns to walk on clouds?”
That got him interested.
“Okay then, what is it?” He asks.
“Camera first” I stick out my hoof expectantly
He reluctantly gives it back to me.
“Tell me how to do it.” He orders.
“I said I’d tell you about it. I already have. It allows ponies besides pegasi to walk on clouds” I say putting the camera strap around my neck.
“Thanks for my camera!” I shout on the way back to my seat. The guard glares at me furiously and signals to his colleague.
“Now would be a good time to run” I whisper to Lightning.
“Where to?” She replies
“Wait I have a better idea” I light up my horn.
“What are yo-Aaah” Lightning hollers
We teleport.
Suddenly we are surrounded by dense forest.
“Do you know where we are?” I whisper to Lightning.
“I don’t know, but it looks we’re in the Everfree forest. I thought you said you were no good at magic?” She whispers back.
“That’s what my sister says. Anyway, more important, we’re in the Everfree forest, lost. Celestia knows what lives in here”
As if to answer a loud roar came from behind me. Lightning and I screamed and ran.
-End Chapter 3-