//------------------------------// // 2 // Story: THE SPACECRAFT. // by Sunnysunny77 //------------------------------// Twilight began to trot towards one of the trees, and stared at the sparkling purple fruit for a few moments. It was only just then that she realized that she had a horn and could use it. So, closing her eyes, she manifested her magical aura onto one of the fruits and brought it down. She didn't know why, but it almost hurt to do magic. The purple fruit was brought down, and it's almost rippling skin of sparkling violet made her mouth drool. She almost wanted to completely devour it— but she had to be patient. Quietly, she opened her mouth and dug her teeth into the skin. But was quickly met with the feeling of.. repulsion, disgust. She gagged, and gagged, and gagged. She could almost feel herself nearly about to barf from the disgusting taste. She looked at the small opening her teeth made; and saw the disgusting insides. Putrid, black insides of rotting fruit-flesh. She whined at the sight. And decided to run off to a different tree so she wouldn't have to smell it. ————— Hesitantly, Twilight stared at the brown fruit from on the leaves. She inhaled, hoping it wouldn't taste as bad as the other one did. Could these fruits belong to somepony? She wanted to know desperately, so she wouldn't have to eat these things. But, either way, she manifested her hot pink magic and brought down the brown fruit. She bit her lip in absolute disgust at the horrible looking fruit before her, and sighed. She opened her mouth, and bit off a piece. ..... It was good. The fruit— it was good! She had never tasted such good fruit in her life before. Not even apples tasted this good! Celestia, this fruit could even win against Zap Apples. She had to bring some with her, it was too good not to! ... ... But she had to eat some too. She surely couldn't just wait to eat some more of it. ———— Twilight began to wonder into the forest, sunlight dipping into the land and bathing it in an almost reddish tint. Yet the pastel purple sky glowed down upon it as well, mixing in with the red. The whole entire vibe of the area seemed almost.. horrific. Would mysterious be another word? No.. unsettling? Twilight wasn't sure how to describe the place, but she knew the place was almost hard to walk in due to the overwhelming feelings of emotions climbing on her back. Fear, irritation, anxiety. All of those only became worse as she continued to walk along the path that she had made for herself. She heard the sound of ripples of a liquid, though she could only assume the liquid to be water. What other possible thing could make such a sound? She looked in its direction, and saw from behind a pair of trees, a deep pool of dirty water. Well, she couldn't exactly tell if it was dirty. Maybe it was the shadows of the trees making it seem a lot darker than it actually was, or maybe she was just desperate to drink something already. Cautiously, she approached, though she didn't know why she was being cautious. It was just water. Right? There was no reason to be scared. For a moment, the rustling of the leaves around her seemed a lot louder than before. And she felt her vision almost darken as she kept walking foward to its deep brown pool. She bowed her head, and saw the reflections of the bushes surrounding it. Maybe this was good water, she couldn't judge a book by its cover after all. ... Oh, who am I kidding? She wasn't that stupid, she just needed a source of liquid to drink. To quench her dying thirst. Dipping her head, she held out her tongue to give the water a lick. But then.. she saw something. In her reflection of the water. Her violet eyes slightly widened as she looked at what she was seeing. Something was standing behind her. Not even thinking about how it looked, she looked behind her— No.. no creature was there. ... She looked back down at the water. Sharp, predator-like teeth loomed above her shoulder. And the bright, white oval-shaped eyes of a creature looming over her stood out amongst.. this.. whatever it was.. the creatures black shape. She shrieked for a moment, and then began to dart off elsewhere. But even so, there was nothing behind her. Even when she was running off into the distance, she could see nothing was there. So what was that? Was that a hallucination from possible thirst? An illusion in the water? ... She didn't want to believe anything else other than those two suggestions. ———— The pastel purple sky was turning into a deeply purple, the ends of it fading into a blank color. She had only noticed just now, but there was no sunset. It was like as soon as the sky became darker, the "sun" had vanished. She could see the faint white speckles of stars amongst the sky, yet she still felt unnerved from that little.. experience she had earlier. She had to find somewhere to rest. She wasn't resting outside, with the possibility of any dangerous creatures looming around. There was a possible bush she could hide in, or she could climb up a tree and rest upon one of the branches. But that would take forever. She wasn't much of a climber, after all. She could use her magic, but with the little pangs of pain she'd feel anytime she used it, she didn't want to know what would happen if the tree happened to be very tall. She was about to give up, and just jump into a bush, when out of the blue— amongst all the faint shadows, was a cave. A cave of shadow, a cave of black night. She could rest here— she had to! It was the only possible way of shelter in this weird.. place she was in. Softly, yet desperately, she approached the void-like entrance of the cave, and crawled inside. It was just a regular one, nothing was inside, only a few rocks— said rocks were formed in an almost circle-like shape. ... Somepony could be resting here. ... Something could be resting here. ... No matter. It wasn't here. Maybe it was somewhere else, or maybe it didn't live in the cave anymore. She'd be fine! And if something came, she could easily escape! Nothing bad would happen, nothing! Calmly, she curled up into a ball in the corner of the cave, and sighed. For what she guessed to be about 30 minutes, she had either slept or been trying to sleep. ... She then heard a deep snarl.