//------------------------------// // Not the world I know of // Story: The Archer of Equestria // by Thunder8277 //------------------------------// The Archer of Equestria Chapter 2: Not the nature I know of As Ken woke up from his sleep, he took a look at his surroundings. What he saw surprised him. There were trees. He was in a forest clearing. But what he remembered before he passed out was being in a helicopter being blown up by a nuclear bomb. How did he end up in a forest? 'Might as well take a look around' he thought to himself while getting up. But couldn't help but feeling like something wasn't right. Like something was watching him. Ken looked around for anything that might see him as breakfast. After about thirty seconds with nothing happening, he just shrugged it off. He picked up his quiver of arrows, longbow, made sure his daggers were strapped securely to his left hip. Once he was done checking everything, he was off. As he started his walk to familiarize himself with the landscape, he was taking in the serenity of the trees all around him and all the birds chirping merry tunes. 'There can't be anything wrong with this land.' Ken thought to himself, enjoying the peace all around him. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'I just HAD to say that!' He thought while running like a madman through the woods. He had just found out what had been stalking him. It was a manticore. A part lion, scorpion, bat thing. Ken's legs were on fire, with each stride his legs would reach a whole new level of stress. Ken was dodging branches, jumping over roots, and trying to stay away from the manticore. He read about them in class once. From what he remembered, a manticore was from Greek mythology, eating all of a person: clothes, bones, and all. He did not want that fate. 'I'M BEING CHASED BY A GODDAMN MANTICORE! WHAT THE HELL'S GONNA HAPPEN NEXT!? AN ELEPHANT/MOUSE CROSS-BREED!? Ken thought to himself panicking. It was then that he spotted a cave. He thought that he could lose the manticore in the darkness of the cave. Once Ken had run into the cave, he waited for any roar or a growl that meant that the manticore had followed him in. There wasn't, just a small whimper of fear. "What is it? afraid of the dark? you just a little wimp, huh? That's right, you can't get me in here!" said Ken arrogantly as he turned around to explore the cave and bumped into something. It was green and breathing. After looking up, Ken realized what he was looking at. "DRAGON!!!" Ken screamed before running out of the cave, all the while making noises so feminine, nobody would've have guessed it was from a guy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ After the whole fiasco with the manticore and dragon, Ken decided it was best to head back into the clearing and climb a tall tree instead of wandering around aimlessly. After a twenty minute walk back to the clearing, Ken immediately located the tallest tree to climb. He found the tallest tree to be about forty feet tall. towering above all the other trees. 'Better make this quick, It's getting dark.' He thought to himself, sizing up the tree. The tree was easy to climb. There was an abundance of branches close enough for him to jump onto. After a four minute climb, Ken was at the top. The first thing Ken saw at the top was a giant castle built on the side of a mountain above a town. He face-palmed at the sheer stupidity the architect put into the idea. But towards the north, He saw a small town. But with night coming, everybody had retired to their homes and he knew he couldn't get a room at an inn with everybody sleeping. Ken decided to stay the night in the forest until morning when he could travel into town. But with no shelter and little supplies, he was forced to stay awake the whole night so he wouldn't freeze to death in his sleep. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ When sunrise finally came, Ken was happy he could finally go into town, get some hot food, and a warm bed to sleep in. With the happy thought in mind, he was walking happily in the direction of the small town. It was a fifteen minute walk from the clearing to the town, but he couldn't just barge into the town after seeing something that couldn't be physically possible. Once he got to the edge of the forest, Ken heard a sweet melody sung by a girl. A cute one by the sound of her voice. But when he got to the edge of the forest, he knew he had lost his mind. He was right about the cute part, adorable in fact, but not the girl part. It was a pegasus, a yellow coated pink maned pegasus Ken didn't know how to react but to run back into the forest. 'Alright Ken, think about it, maybe this place does have humans, and they live alongside these small horse things. yeah, that's it.' He thought to himself. As he peeked around the tree he was hiding behind, he saw the town clearly. And what he saw was not what he expected. There were more equines roaming the street. No signs of any humans. Ken even noticed some had horns and others had neither. 'Or maybe I'm just slowly becoming a crazed man.' Ken suspected that he was the only human in this world and with his great height over the small horse-like figures, he would probably be considered a monster. Ken had made up his mind to go back into the forest and hide from the horses. He did not want to find out what they did to monsters. He had made a mental list of what he had to do to survive: -make shelter -gather food -find drinkable water With his mind set on surviving while he was stuck in that world, Ken headed back into the forest, ready to work on his new life in the woods on a planet he knows nothing about.