//------------------------------// // Secret danger // Story: Sweetie belle alone // by Reactception //------------------------------// SWEETIE POV EDGE OF THE DESERT: I need to make it out of this desert and to a town & from their I’ll go to the farthest place possible from Ponyville. “But I don’t wanna leave Equestria.” I mutter to myself, as the sun’s heat starts to bare down on my back fur causing small beads of sweat to trickle down my spine. The sun beat down on my back as I trek through the seemingly endless desert made of nothing but sand and worst of all I seemed to have start hallucinating. I’d seen some weird things in the past hour some so strange that I’d probably remember them the rest of my life….. …..however short that may be. She’d seen a strange Caterpillar mixed with a lion lumbering past her it’s breath heavy as of it was struggling to walk. She’d seen done kinda living rock wearing a green outfit made of crystal plants that walked past her straight to another pile of rocks and fall back into a circular rock shape. Not to mention the strange Stallion who had his hair in a ponytail and had walked up to her shouting “Cactus juice! For those with natural curiosity. The warrior’s choice. Drink cactus juice! It’ll quench Ya! Nothing’s Quenchier! It’s the Quenchiest!” After yelling all this the man seemingly walked away into the distance still yelling “IT’LL QUENCH YA!!!!! Over and over again as he disappeared over a sand dune. I continued my trek hoping that a pony town would be close and that I could get water there. “If I don’t find one soon…. *pant* I’ll die out here.” I mutter to myself my hooves dragging across the ground as I pulled myself up the 40th sand dune I’d crossed today. Why’d that Hydra have to survive the fall and come after me & attack Quartz. She wasn’t sure why but something inside her was telling her she had to keep running further and further away from the forest that had sat around the outside of the cave she and Quartz had been in. Eventually Sweetie Belle saw a town in the distance and she knew she would have to hurry if she wanted to get any help before she passed out from the heat. So continued her trek over the sand dunes and down the horizon her only obstacles was sand, distance and the blistering heat. Despite her effort the poor young filly passed out from the heat just a sand dune away from the small town known as dodge junction. Once again as per the pattern of her life lately Sweetie Belle awoke in an unfamiliar place. A small room with only a bed and a light and below her was a small door. But the strangest part of the room was the ceiling which was shaped and curved like an upside down staircase. Sweetie shakily rose from the bed stepping off onto the small section of open carpet between the door and the bed. Cautiously she swung the door in front of her open which led into a huge room with a pony pong table & a poker table. “Oh deary me she’s awake ain’t that juss the best news you ever heard boys.” A voice to her left called out a voice with a very familiar accent. Applebloom! she thought to herself turning only to see a tall, white, adult mare with strawberry colored hair and a small mole on her left cheek. “Howdy lil girl! I’m Cherry’s Jubilee however did you end up passed out in the desert?” She said her voice the most country Sweetie heard anyone even more so then the apples which she hadn’t thought possible. More ponies! the Hydra thinks to itself smelling multiple ponies behind him about where the dragon smell ends And 1 of the pony scents coming up fast from behind him. Hate ponies! Ruin everything! Hurt me and kill master! The left most head shouts telepathically at the other 3 heads. Find and kill white pony first then kill rest of ponies. the left middle head replies angrily. Despite wanting to kill all ponies. The Hydra seemed to hate Sweetie Belle more then anything not even the Hydra understood why. Sure she had injured it but so had Twilight and her friends in the past. Something simply drove the beast to want to kill the small filly and being the dumb beast it was. It listened to the voice that spurred it onward after the filly. But as he was trodding in the direction of her smell the voice in it’s head spoke again. “CANTERLOT! SMALL PONY WILL END UP IN CANTERLOT!MUST GO TO CANTERLOT! Non of the 4 heads or 2 brain cells questioned this and the Hydra simply obeyed the voice shifting directions to the capital city of Canterlot. Meanwhile the search party had come to a decision to stop and save the dragon they had found hurt but while the tended to the dragon Rainbow Dash had agreed to go ahead and keep looking. After all she was the fastest and most likely to find Sweetie Belle while the others were busy. Neither Dash nor Sweetie knew the danger that was still out their stalking for Sweetie and killing anything else that was in it’s way especially ponies!