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// Chapter 1 - Welcome to a new world 
// Story: Equestrian Bird 
// by Retro Bash 
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									Equestrian Bird
By :Retro Bash


The Everfree forsest is no place for young filleys. Its chock full of Timberwolves and has lots of tar and mud pits that can get you stuck in em' forever. Many fear to enter and even the monsters tend to stay away from the center of the Everfree forest for they fear what kinds of dark horrors lay neer the core of this dark place.This place even has its own name simply called "The Center"

But really theres nothing bad in the Center. Think of it as a circle of huge trees that can not be moved. Somewhat like huge Zap Apple trees except dont go away after a few day but stay forever and are as big as 3 Hydras. The trees are probably what makes people afraid of it, due to there huge menecing glory and all the hassel of geting there then trying to find a way in past a wall of magic trees that may or may not send onehundred-million Wats of electricity throughout your entire body. 

But behind the trees is a sight worth all the hassel. There is a medow with a few regular trees and ponds and flowers everywhere. Animals live throught there but none are evil. Most are vegaterians and live mostley on water and tall grass. Everything there is nice and dandey, except for one thing,

EVERYTHING is black and white.

Now that may not seem like much but the white's are always glowing brightley and and blacks are so dark it seems like a spot of darkness reachhes through the world. To the animals this is nothing for they are used to the blank color and is what they live with once they are born. But to anyponys eye it would drive em' insane in almost an instant. The grass and leaves where all black while everthing eles was white. The most interesting thing was the sky though, while there it would remain a constant black and never change color. The only way of telling time was if the moon was up or down, the sun wasent even visable from there only the light from the moon would tell the creatures of the Center if it was night or day.

As stated before animals dont mind but one bird, can not stand it. He is a dove. Your "run-of-the-mill" dove. for 18 years he has lived his life in the center of the everfree and has never left. Even if he wanted to he couldent because the trees are so tall his wings would fall off half way deu to exaustion. His entire life is devoted to leaving the horid limbo or a place and to see new things, new people, and most of all new colors! All he wants to do is experance new colors and tastes that fill the world around him but is blocked off by a 4 foot thick magic tree.

To most the Center would not seem so bad, but in a place that you can not roam free and nothing ever changes  and everyday is never any diffrent from the last is a hell hole for some. In this case just our dove friend. No one seemed to mind this lack of color. the only colors that where diffrent form black and white was the dark brown tree bark and its dark green leaves. Everyone would just carry on just as nature intened for. But not our dove friend dident want to live in a world with all sorts of smells that veryed from the fresh smell of roses to the soft warm touch of a heated blanket in a cold winter night. 

Although everthing is one of two colors sometimes people get hurt in the Center, and when people get hurt most times  they bleed. all of the animals can not see the red of the blood except our dove friend. To him red was the most magical thing he has ever seen in all of his years. At the age of 7 he cut his wing and saw blood for the first time. He just sat there and watched as it flowed out of his  wing before the scratch healed itself. The dark red flowing over his bright wight wings and onto the pitch black grass was the most amazing thing that he had ever seen. That sight was proabley the reason the he wouldent have ended it later for it kept his mind in one pice by the one mental image of blood running off of his wing.

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One day something happend, he was Asleep in his cosy nest up on top of his colorless tree. But then sudenley he felt a scratch on his neck that dident seem to stop untill he woke out of his slumber to look at what had been pestering him. To his suprise it was a pony! He had heard storys of ponys from friends and from lore telling of creatures who can make the world theres and are free to do what they want. He also knew how some have wings that where powerfull enough to make a twister and some have horns that can use magic to levate things or cast powerfull forces and thoughs stronger than they are. 

"who are you?" he said to the pony. He then realized that hes a dove and that hes talking to a pony and that it dident understand what he was saying.

The pony had a black and gold mane with a dark grey coat shrouded in a black hood blocking her eyes sat there in front of him, in all color. She remained silent for what seemed like a life time untill she noded her head twards one of the grand trees and quickley troted twards it. The dove was as confused as can be but flew after the poney anyway. 

she had stoped next to the tree and waited a few seconds for him to arive next to her. The dove felt even more and more compeled to fly away with every passing moment that smacked him square in the face. Yet he also felt that if he went back to his nest a fate worse than death would come to him, but it was to late due to him alredy landing. God help him

The pony toched and keeped its hoove on the bark of one of the huge trees but wasent geting electricuted form the hulking beast of a lighting pole. The dove just stared thinking to himself "what is she doing?". The pony is now muttering words but they seem like some sort of tribal speak mixed in with a andriod.

"Hi forda ka lema to"she said

after a few good minutes of this she stoped and then her eyes flared his favriot color ,red. A gapeing hole appeired in the center or the tree, deviding the two worlds and opening a window to the outside world. No longer was he to be traped in the prison of his own world but now abel to fly through the green trees and among the bright blue sky or even see a rainbow for the first time. He could smell all the things he never did befor like fresh baked cake or cookies right out of the oven with the warm embrace of the heat emerging from them. Mabey he would feel the smooth texture of ivory from a big pillar to a grand museum and face with all the things he so charesed and wanted for his entire life.

He couldent wait no longer, he spread his wings and then took off as fast as a bullet twards the hole to have all that he would want in life but then a green aura incased him, he wasent able to shift or move. He was then draged in by the pony who is now ovisley a unicorn. she undid her hood and looked at him in the eyes while shuffeling about in her saddel bag and pulling out something silver and bronze that sparkeld agenst the dull moon light. 

"You have lived and wasted away in this place for to long," she wisperd into his ear "go to the zebra in the woods, north of the grand willow, she will give you the awnsers."

"but who are you?" he said and then quickley rembered that she could not underst-

"I am just the one to give you your new life." she atached the silver object witch was a locket shaped as a gear to his neck with the word ARK scratch on to it. "This is your new name, go and live life"

Just as she said the last word she undid the spell shooting him through the hole and into a tree. He did nto feel any pain for he was to confused to understand anything but what she misterious pony had said.