Chapter 3 (Reading is magic)
You feel yourself hit the ground; you rub your head from the abrupt impact. You look around you to try and get your bearings. You know you're outside but things look too different to be Ponyville, the sky looks a dull one shade blue and the grass looks more like a lifeless one shade green.
You pick yourself of the dirt ground and look in every direction, every area looks the same. A one shade green with just a strip of brown dirt, you stop spinning as a thought races into your brain…I’m in the book…
You’re quickly snap out of your daze as you call out for someone to answer. “Twilight! Spike? Rainbow?!”
You run back and forth call out for help and for someone to answer but you don’t hear any voices. You sit on the dirt path and place your hoof into the dirt. The dirt feels very damp and almost like paint the feel of wet paint, as you bring your hoof up to your face it really does look like wet paint.
Oh great first a pony world now a book world, You flop to the ground and lay there with your eyes closed. “OH come on! What now!”
You listen to the sound of your breathing as you start to calm down and think of possible escape routes, I could dig until I fall out? Or build a way out using painted trees and grass. Or find a way to burn the book….ya burn the book. Your thoughts are brought to a halt at the sound of a voice.
“Excuse me but why are you lying on the road?”
Your eyes shoot at the sound of a famine voice, you look towards the sound and you see a dull yellow colored pony staring at you. The pony has a one tone yellow coat with a slightly different shade of yellow for hair her eyes unlike every other pony you have ever seen are very dull color of orange with a small white pupil. The pony has a stack of hay that rest on her back you can’t tell if she has wings but you know she doesn’t have a horn.
You don’t care though you’re just happy to see another person…pony. You gallop over to her and embrace her with a hug, you awkwardly break the hug as you tell her your name.
The yellow pony shushes you with her hoof, and start to whisper “Don’t talk so loud or he might hear you.”
You nod your head at her comment, great she’s crazy.
“My name is Hay-barrel. And I’m the youngest of the barrel family.” She smiles at the end of her comment.
You nod your head, you have never heard of the barrel family so the name doesn’t ring a bell. “Tell me where am I?”
The pony look at you and cocks her head “Well you’re here that’s where?”
You look around “But where?”
The pony taps her hoof to her face “You don’t make much….”
The pony is cut off by a loud rumbling sound. Hay-barrel screams at you “Follow me!”
You chase after Hay-barrel as fast as you can down the dirt trail. Oh god I wish I had two legs! Your running is awkward but you keep pace with her, after a few moments of running you see a small hay covered house near the end of the road. “Come on get inside!”
Once you reach the house Hay-barrel darts inside and close the door behind her, you sit outside trying to fettle the door open “Knobs!? How did you open this?”
As the loud rumbling noise gets louder the door flies open and you’re pulled inside. Hay-barrel puts her hoof to her mouth “Shhhh.”
You both move to the window of the house to look outside. As the noise gets louder you can start to see the creature making the sound, once the creature gets into sight you can tell that the sound is a howl. The dark coated creature is a wolf. You stare at the wolf as it looks up to the sky. “Why is a wolf….”
“Shhh.” You feel Hay-barrels hoof placed inside your mouth, she taste like paint and you pull back from her to release yourself from her grasp.
She again brings her hoof to her mouth “You don’t want it to hear you.”
You watch the wolf from the window, and still wonder why it’s looking at the sky. After a few moments of watching the wolf a rainbow colored bolt smacks into it. “Rainbow!” you shout.
The wolf stumbles around a bit and snaps at the darting rainbow blots that continue to strike it.
You can hear Rainbow’s tomboyish voice mocking the wolf as she continues to hammer it.
It looks as if the wolf is about to give up, but just as Dash is about to slam into the wolf again it moves and she collides with the ground. Dahs slides thought the ground a few feet before she stops, you watch as she rubs her head. But more importantly you watch as the wolf gets closer to her.
You can tell Rainbow won’t be getting into the air anytime soon so you break into action; You bust through the door and yell as you charge the wolf. You slam into the wolf, the collision brings it to the ground, you stagger few a second before you rush over to Dash. “GET UP!”
Rainbow looks at you for a moment “IT’s YOU!”
You look back to the wolf and notice it is starting to get up; you look back to Rainbow and shout “YA? No shit, now GET UP!”
Rainbow gets up from the dirt and darts towards the house you just left. Your feelings of being a hero don’t last long as you quickly release you can’t keep up with Rainbow Dash.
You feel yourself being brought to the ground by the wolf as it jumps on your back. You lie under the wolf facing its face, note to self, get a better plan!
The wolf licks it’s lips as it talks “A colorful pony you have cost me…so a meal you must toss me.”
You would laugh at the terribly rhyme if your heart was not beating in your throat. You close your eyes as the wolf snaps at you.
But the wolf doesn’t get a piece a pile of hay hits its face and it bites the ground. You look towards the house and see Rainbow about to kick another stack of hay. “Don’t sit there RUN!”
As the next bundle of hay hits its face you push the wolf off and gallop to the house. You pull Rainbow’s tail with your mouth as you enter the house.
Rainbow grabs squeezes you with a hug as she yells at you “What did you do!”
You try to get a few words out as her hug gets tighter.
She continues to talk “I thought I was stuck in this dumb book alone.”
Hay-barrel breaks the hug “I know you two are happy but the WOLF!”
You three look outside of the window and see its face staring back. “Let me in.” The wolf’s smile is menacing.
Hay-barrel grabs Rainbow’s hoof as she talks “Don’t!”
Rainbow jerks her hoof from her grasp “Well duh!”
The wolf continues to talk “Then I’ll blow your house down!”
You look at Rainbow as the story start to dawn on you “It’s the three little pigs!”
Both of the ponies look at you in confuse. As you talk “Hay-barrel do you have a brother or sister?”
Hay-barrel looks at you in confusing as she answers “Yes? Wood-barrel and brick-barrel, why?”
“Great take us to Brick-barrel.” Right as you finish your sentence the hay house comes crashing down.
Rainbow yells as she kicks the wolf in the face “Run!”
End of chapter 3