After several hours of destroying and reproducing the Apple orchards, Discord went back to the barn and sat down in the shade, Will spots a tree stump and decided to sit in the spot.
And, just like on cue… Scootaloo came out of the barn running, and stood right next to discord, which had a cowboy hat on him. The filly looked at the Draconiquis with a calmer look on her face, rather than a furious expression.
“Well… are you just gonna stand there, or talk?” Discord said while tilting his hat a bit.
“W-well… please help me find them… please…” Scootaloo muttered but enough to be heard by Discord.
“Good enough…” Discord looks at the filly. “Now first, before we go set out to find them, tell me… how did you three get separated first place?” He asked. “And please… start at the very beginning.”
“Why would you want to know that?” Scootaloo asked sourly.
“Duh, to get a clue where to find them! If we’re going to look for them I want to know what happened first!” Discord proclaimed. Scootaloo was reluctant to tell him, but she decided to tell her tale as she sits down next to him…
“It all started that afternoon… before the attack of those hollows reached Ponyville…”
(Through the eyes of Scootaloo)
At that time… we were in the club house trying to get ideas on our next Cutie Mark Crusader activity… we were all stumped and was deep in thought… Until Sweetie Belle started to say…
“Hey! What if we go take pictures of the animals in the forest at night?” Sweetie belle said, while she gave us a grin.
“At night? Are you serious?” I said to her… though a little sarcastic.
“Yeah, creatures of the night are more cool than during the day~” Sweetie said while she was still grinning. “We could be… The Cutie Mark Crusader Animal Photographers!” She proclaimed.
“Didn’t we already did that same thing with the birds?” Apple Bloom spoke beside me.
“Yeah, that didn’t go well…” I said with a funny look on my face.
“Aww come on, you guys… it wont hurt to try~ besides… have we done anything lately?” Sweetie asked me and Apple Bloom. She’s right… we haven’t done any activity lately.
I nodded “Alright, lets go try animal photographers!!”
“Yaaay!!” We all said in unison… then we went out of our club house for snacks and went back after we’re finished...
We set out to the forest later that afternoon. It was slightly dark, but Apple Bloom brought some lanters along with her… As we went deeper into the forest, we saw Ichigo laying on the ground laying in a small crater. The three of us looked at eachother then back at Ichigo… we weren’t sure what happened to him at that time so we just stared at him… after a while, Apple Bloom suddenly spoke.
“Hey, isn’t that the Sour Reaper?” She said while pointing at him.
“For the record… It’s Soul Reaper, not Sour Reaper… what… he Reaps up sour things?” Sweetie and I laughed at this hysterically….
“What ever!” Apple Bloom snaped. “So… Is he alright?”
“I dunno…” I went over too look at him closely, and saw that his face was rather… odd… His eyes were swirling and his mouth was wide open in a dorky manner and his limbs were twitching. “He’s fine… he’s just sleeping”
“Sleeping?!” Sweetie burst out in a high voice. “Can’t you see he’s clearly hurt and unconcious!?” she said rantingly.
“C’mon, Scoots… Let’s jus’ get ‘em inside…” Apple Bloom said, slightly frowning at me.
“I’m kidding… come on, lets get him inside our club house before the wierdos show up.” I suggested, then the three of us brought him in, completely fogetting our activity.
we laid him down in a makeshift bed we just made and settled him down there… We then sat down, and looked at out guest’s appearance.
“Ah wonder what happened ta him?” Apple Bloom asked the the two of us sitting next to her.
“How should I know?” I said in an obvious consent.
“Maybe he got beat up?” Sweetie guessed.
“Nah, He’s too cool for that to happened to him…” I said boastingly, which the other two made them think.
“Is he even alive?” I asked them…
“No, duh…” Sweetie rolled her eyes.
“Little sis?” Big Mac poked his head on the window. “Ya fillies alright in there?”
“Yep! We’re A-okay!” Apple Bloom snapped back.
“Hmm?” Big Mac looked at Ichigo who was laying beside us… “Why’s that Ichigo feller, doin’ inside yer club house, little sis?”
“Wull, he was hurt so we dragged em’ in here fer safety…” Apple Bloom answered… but Big Mac seems to be worried about something.
“Wull, I don’t mind if y’all take care of them… but, don’t be goin’ out tonight… there’s something wrong in Ponyville and ah don’t want ya to be involved, alright?” Apple Bloom nodded on her brother, so did I and Sweetie Belle. “Now then… jus’ watch over Ichigo and Ah’ll find yer big sister… where ever she is…”
After that, Big Mac left us with Ichigo in our care…
All of a sudden, his hand twiched… then he started sweating and saying words in his sleep…
“Oh my god~…. Oh my god~ oh myyy gooooooood~”
The three of us raised our eye brows…
“Who’s god?” Sweetie asked us.
“Ah dunno, maybe his mother?” Apple Bloom claimed, which made us all giggle in that silly thought.
All of a sudden, he kept shouting and screaming waving his hands all over.
“Is he crazy?!” Apple Bloom said, as we all backed away from him a bit…
“I think he’s having a nightmare!” Sweetie said, who was getting worried about this guy. “Should we wake him?”
“If we can get close to him~” I said, dodging his hands as he waves it all around.
“HOLY SHIT!!!” Ichigo screamed, making the Cutie Mark Crusaders almost hightailed out of the club house… yeah, we literally ran outside.
“What was that?!” Sweetie asked us, but me and Apple Bloom were in the same shock as Sweetie is.
“Alright… that does it, I’m waking him up!” I gathered my courage and walked back in towards Ichigo.
“Hey, you guys hear that?” Sweetie Belle perked her ears, as well as Apple Bloom and me. “Are those, shouting Ponies?”
“Ah dunno, but ah think somethin’s up back in town…” Apple Bloom said then looks at me.
I simply nodded and goes toward Ichigo… and wakes him up… “Ichigo? Ichigo! Wake up!”
Ichigo groaned a bit, then his eyes flutter open. “Oh, good… He’s awake…” Sweetie said, as Ichigo looked at us.
“W-wha~ What happened?” he asked us, as he still looked around, moving his head a bit.
“We found ya’ on that there forest unconscious... ah got Sweetie Belle and Scoots ta help me get ya to our tree house!” Apple Bloom explained.
“You were all banged up, what happened to you anyway?” I asked him wondering who could have done that to him...
“Long story short, I got kicked out by a witch...” Ichigo stood up then bumps his head on the ceiling, making a loud bang when he hit the wooden roofing… we never thought that he’s much bigger than we expected… Ichigo held his head as a hung red bump came poppoing out of his head…
“Nice…” The three of us said in unison, which we giggled all together as well.
He then looks at us with an obvious annoyed face. “You really know HOW to support a guy.”
I looked over to Sweetie belle then at Apple Bloom… they both just shruged at me.
“By the way…” I started. “There was a commotion going on in town.
“Yeah, we kept hearin’ screamin’ and yellin’... Big mac said we should stay here fer a while and keep an eye on ya while y’all were sleepin’” Apple Bloom said to Ichigo.
Right after Apple Bloom said that, Ichigo went silent all of a sudden, after a few seconds, he took out is.. big, knife-thingy off his back…
The three of us dropped out jaws in amazement. “Wait, does that thing always been in his back this all time?” I whispered to the others.
“How the hay should ah know?!” Apple Bloom said in the same surprised tone as I was.
Sweetie Belle on the other hand, was still in a state of amazement…
He then heads to the door and said to us… “Girls, stay put... I need to go, to the bathroom.”
The three of us looked at each other, we knew what he was gonna do and we want to see it first hoof.
“Can we come?” Sweetie Belle walked over to Ichigo and tugged at him… Me and Apple Bloom knew where Sweetie Belle was going with this, so we both joined in.
“Yeah, we’ve been holding it since~” I said also tugging at Ichigo.
“Please?” Apple Bloom tugged as well.
He sighed then looked at us… “Alright, but stick close… I feel something isn’t right here…” He said, while the three of us winked at eachother.. then we all jumped to his head and snuggled comfortably. “I swear, if you three starts to piss on me you're going to have a serious breakdown...” He said to us, but don’t really understand what he meant…
He ran towards the nearest bathroom and before we could even notice, we we’re already there… We jumped off of his head then went inside all together… I shut the door and locked it then turned to the others.
“Well? Do you think he’s gonna go and fight monsters?” I asked them both.
“Ah dunno… he seems to be weary about something…”
“Maybe he’s just worried about us… we’re just filles afterall…” Sweetie Belle added.
“We’re not just fillies… we’re the Cutie Mark Crusaders! We venture to danger and then some, to get out Cutie Marks!” I said, raising a hoof into the air.
“Yeah!” The two of them said.
“Tonight, we’re gonna take photographs of monsters! Then show them to others for them to see!” I claimed.
“Yeah!” They both cheered.
“Cutie Mark Crusader Monster Photographers!”
After that, we went out of the bathroom and called out to Ichigo. “We’re done!!” We shouted to Ichigo, but he was nowhere around the bathroom… then all of a sudden, we heard him shout~
“Getsuga TENSHOU!!!”
Then something whized pass us and explodes behind us! We all looked back only to see something turning to ashes.
“What in tarnation wus that?!” Apple Bloom asked in surprise, as Me and Sweetie Belle wanted to know.
“Girls! get inside the clubhouse!!” Ichigo shouted all of a sudden, we didn’t hesitate to run back at the clubhouse as fast as we could…
“W-wha… What was that thing?!” Sweetie Belle squeaked.
“That was scary! That… That thing was BEHIND us!!!” I said while shaking and trembling over the fact that we could have died back there…
Oh… that feeling… I never felt so scared in my entire life! So did Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom… the three of us hugged together and hoping that they wont come inside.
“T-they’re gonna eat us if they get in here~” Apple Bloom cried. “I’m sorry for the bad things I did to you guys!”
“I’m sorry if I was too bossy sometimes!” I yelled out to them.
“I’m sorry for eating your apple pie!” Sweetie Belle yelled.
“Wait… it was YOU!?” Apple Bloom looked at Sweetie Belle who just smiled silly at us.
Just then, the tree house shook violently…
The three of us hugged eachother tight, like it was out last night here in Ponyville… I thought to my self… this is it… they found us… and they’re gonna eat us…
We’re dead…