On a very particular farm:
The clouds we're still grey, and the raining had just finished it's cycle. The pasture was still, and little more than the meow of a few housecats filled the air, except for...
*Knock*
*Knock*
*Knock*
Three quick knocks to the door of an empty home.
"HEELLOOOOOoooo,"
"ANYONE HOOOME!"
she said with gusto and two hands cupped around her mouth.
She was dressed in a little girlsscout uniform, clad with little bronze pins to button her up. To most people she would appear to be a cute little girl selling cookies, but to a very perculier farmer she could almost appear as a tumor on his backside.
And noting the lack of Mr. Shalkowski, she was annoyed at the lack of an overreacting goat herder.
"What the heck is that crazy bean up too."
She checked the doorknob, and of course he just happened to leave it unlocked, unattended, and basically free range to anyone who's comfortable enough to enter. A devious smile spread across her face,and you know she was going to have some fun with this.
Or at least you think you know she thinks that she was going to have some fun with this...
She said in a sing-songy voice,
"OOOHH MR. MELIKO, IF YOUR NOT HOME AT THE MOMENT, IM COMING IIIIIINNN. "
And she walked in the front door,
In the in-between:
WELL
"We'll see what happens..."
Up on Mt. Everhoof:
She stood at the barrier, the only thing between her and the bell. The Magical barrier, cast by the Glorious Gusty The Great. She backed up to the edge of the cliff and prepared to charge through it head on.
She harnessed the mystical and cosmic energies her brother had helped her gather, she focused it into her ram-like horns and ran.
*CRASH*
She had shattered Gusty's so called great barrier, the force she used causing her to eat dust.
"So much for Gusty the Great, more like Musty the taint."
She scoffed, even though she knew he was powerful, she didn't care. No point in Not razzing the old and dead.
So, she was finished with step 1, on to step 2. Snagging the Bell, and getting the fuck outta here. She strolled through the cave like she owned the place, which I MEAN, she kinda did considering she was a descendant of the Great Grogar and his bell was inside the mountain.
And it had sat there alone for centuries, without supervision or caretaking. So it really was Hers for the claiming. So she justly did just that...
"It really is good to be here, too bad there's no one here to ruin our touching reunion."
She hung the bell around her neck and stepped towards a once impenetrable forcefield. Spitting on the ground on her way out, she then took a stance on the edge of the highest cliff of the tallest mountain and called out to the world.
And using her ancient bell like a megaphone she shouted,
"GUESS WHAT WORLD, I GOT THE THING, AND GUESS WHO DIDN'T!!!"
"YOU, YOU STUPID BITCHES!!!"
"Damn!, it felt good to get that out."
The whole world had felt her message ressonate in their souls.
Especially the two other entities she arrived with,
"AYO!, NYE-Z GOT THE THING!"
Iniko exclaimed standing on his back hooves clearly pumped
"Naya z got what thing, whuut?"
Meliek was Just plainly confused.
"We hyphenate and shorten each other's names sometimes, but that doesn't matter."
"Naya's found the bell."
Niko stated as a matter-of-factly.
"What's the Bell?, Some kind of super powerful ancient relic or something that I should be totally aware of?"
"Yes!, Exactly That!"
"How did you know?"
"I didn't know, I first dreamed about it when we fell asleep, but it makes sense now."
He said, Starting to continue walking.
"I guess that makes sense, we are All connected to it."
Also resuming their trek, until he smelled something Familiar, stewed vegetables, or soup, he didn't know.
"Stop, wait, do you smell that?"
"~Yeah, it smells good~"
Meliek said also stopping in his tracks.
Both of their stomachs rumbled at once, and they were quick to hop on the train of thought.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking pachinko melieko?"
"Honestly, probably."
And they were off in the direction of food to a quench their thirst for solids. They were running, almost tripping over each other following the scent of an immensely good stew. Then meliek tripped and fell down a hill he apparently couldn't stop to look for.
"Ooh-, ow!, Damn!-, Sunnavabiscuit!!"
Iniko, at least managed to stop himself.
"Hey!, are you good down there?"
"Yeah, I think so, the smell is definitely getting closer."
"Yeah, More like, right behind you."
He said pointing a hoof at the window behind meliek.
To which he turned around to see a big pot in the middle of a room past the said window, there was also what appeared to be many different spices and herbs on the shelves.
"Well what are we waiting for!, Let's get in there and eat that unknown soup!"
Slowly Walking down the hill, towards the door
"Hold up, wait a minute."
"There's soup, so obviously someone is making it, and that someone is not in the room right now, we can't just walk in there all Willie nillie."
"We should at least knock and ask, like civilized individuals."
So, as they approached the door. They made note of their surroundings, many little bottles and flasks held upon little strings along the branches of the tree hut. It had a sort of a serene and and ethereal beauty to it, one that they couldn't place an appendage on.
What they could put a appendage on though, was the thing they came for. The soup that was just through the door. So the goat initiated the knock in quite the familiar rythm...
*Knock*, *knockity* *knock* *knock*,
*knock knock*
And the door opened, to reveal a bewildered zebra, but not just any zebra.
"Hello mysterious creature and a goat to boot. I would enjoy some unruly company, if your attitudes are not snoot."
Said the striped rythmically inclined equine.
"We would love to be your unruly company my dear zebra friend, may I ask what is your name?, We wish to eat and mend."
Replied the belying sly one-of-a kind goat
"You shall be new friends, for My name, Zecora, and you may come inside for a time, I wish not to be abhorrent."
"Now come come please, I wish for you to be at ease."
Replied Zecora, a true friend indeed,
or maybe in need...
They could all tell that this was only the start to a beautiful blossoming friendship.
So they moved forward, even if just for some food company, and a little something more...