Chapter 1
A Camping Trip
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I hear a chirping bird which wakes me up, I roll over to put my hoof over Pinkie. I hear a poof sound and I open my eyes to see nopony there, and my hand, still just a dream... Ponyville... Pinkie... Wedding... all lies...
“Pinkie...” I say quietly to the empty room, I hear nothing but outside birds and cars going by. I pull my hand up to my face to examine it, I shake my head and put my hand down. “Why couldn't it have been real?...” I whisper to nothing. I get up out of bed and walk over to the bathroom, I step in the doorway of the bathroom and the first thing I see, is my reflection in the mirror.
In the mirror is not a pegasus, it's a simple human, me, in the clothes I wore yesterday, my black hair all messed up. I do not see a tail or wings, just human Dean. I walk into the bathroom and up to the mirror, expecting me to change or something, but it doesn't happen, so, it was all fake... my eyes tear up. It was all a stupid freaking dream.
I feel anger rise in me the more I think about it. I shake my head at the reflection of me, and walk out of the bathroom. I walk into the living room and then into the kitchen, I fix myself some cereal and sit down and eat. I still can't believe it was still a dream...
As I put my bowl in the sink I hear a knocking at my door, I fast walk over to the door and open it to see Alex and Max standing there, “Hey guys...” I say. “Are you still glum about that dream dude?” Alex asks me, I say nothing. Alex just sighs and says “Whatever, anyway well Max and I have come up with a plan to help get your mind off your dream.”
“Oh yeah?” I say raising an eyebrow, “And what's that?” I cross my arms. Alex stands there for a moment as I stare at him, whatever is on his mind is probably not good. “Camping.” He says. “Where are we going to camp? And besides I don't have a tent or anything for camping.”
“Don't worry about that, we got enough stuff for a whole weekend!” Max exclaims, he must really like camping. “So come on dude, it'd be awesome! 3 buds just hanging out in the middle of the forest acting like idiots.” Alex says.
I guess camping would be okay, it would help get my mind off of the dream, and how it never happened, which is still eating me up inside. I grab my wallet and keys and lock up before heading to Alex's car.
Max yells “Shotgun!” as he opens the passenger door and hops in, giving me a goofy grin, I shrug and hop in the back, I am able to squeeze in, even though there is a bunch of camping stuff in the seats. Alex gets in, we all buckle, and he starts the car. “So where are we camping?” I ask.
Alex answers my question by driving up into my yard and going around the house to the forest behind it, good thing there is a path big enough for the car. The path isn’t long and we stop when the path ends. “There is a clearing over there.” Alex says.
We bring the stuff over and start to set up, it doesn't take long, though the tents wanted to be a pain, but we got all three of them up. I look down at my watch, six-thirty, my stomach grumbles a bit. “Hopefully you guys brought food.” They pull out the cooler and bring out some hotdogs and buns.
We set up a fire and eat some food, we continue telling jokes and stories, I'm not even thinking about the dream right now, too busy laughing at Alex telling us a joke, dirty one of course. I press the button on my watch to lighten it, ten o'clock. I kind of want to take a walk, just to get some exercise.
I ask Alex and Max if they want to go walking around, they shake their head, “Nah man, we about to nod off soon, why are you going?” Alex asks. I shrug, “Why not, I don't think anythings going to get me, besides a walk would make me feel better.” I say. “Still feeling bad about the dream?” Max asks. I nod. I tell them good night and begin my walk.
I don't bring a flashlight cause I don't want to alert any critters around here, this is why I like winter, it's so peaceful, it's quiet, it's cool, which is way better than heat. I would rather freeze than burn up.
I try to stay close to the campsite, but I can see the fire a good distance away. I lean up against a tree and sigh, I hear a rustling sound next to me, I look over and see a pile of leaves...the portal? Can it be?
I immediately move push the leaves out of the way, hoping that a portal is there. I move all the leave and see no portal, no new life... I sit down on the ground. I was so sure that was the portal. Why does nothing go right for me.
I stand up and walk around some more, upset about not finding the portal. I start to head back to camp when I hear something. A groan of sorts, or moan or something, I tense up and turn around, no one is standing there.
I listen for more sounds and I don't hear anything, I look to my right and I see something strange in the moonlight, a form of sorts. As I get closer I notice more about it, it's purple, and it isn't human... I look around it and see five more forms and they aren't human either...they're ponies...and the purple one's name is Twilight Sparkle...
I move closer and I see the others...Rainbow...Rarity...Fluttershy...Applejack...and......Pinkie... It takes my mind a moment to figure out what is going on. I then think, great I am asleep again, no way this can't be true, my other dream was a lie too, so I pinch myself, nope didn't wake up, so this isn't a dream... this is real...
(End of chapter 1)