Chapter 4 (Between a Wolf and a Brick)
The three of you rush from the caved in house down the dirt path that leads towards a wood house.
The wolf seems to have stopped for the moment, as you near the house you see another pony only this time the pony is brown with brown hair, the eyes are the same though.
Hay-barrel try to explain what has happen but before she can Rainbow calls out “It’s back!”
The brown pony tries to push you three into the house but you and Rainbow break free. Rainbow starts pushing them down the dirt path “Oh no I have read this story way too many times I am not wasting time now come on!”
The four of you continue down the dirt road to until the brick house comes into view.
Hay-barrel call out to the grey colored pony at the doorway “WOLF!”
The grey pony that was once peacefully sitting on the porch fiddling with some bricks now jumps towards the door as the five of you try to jam yourselves into the small brick house.
As you four enter the building you all crowded the window and look for the wolf.
“There it is!” Hay-barrel faints at the sight of the wolf. Her two sisters crowded around her to see if she is ok. Rainbow looks out the window and talks to you “Why did it stop?” You shake your head and begin to laugh, you don’t know why you're laughing maybe it’s because you're happy you're alive or maybe it’s because you have finally lost it.
Rainbow cocks an eyebrow at you “Are you crazy?”
You stop laughing and look to her “Where in a BOOK. Isn’t that amazing?”
Rainbow looks out the window and then back to you, as she laughs she slumps down beside you. You both just sit there and laugh. Your crazy laughing is brought to an end as you hear claws scrapings on the door.
“Hello my little ponies. let me in I just want to play.” The menacing voice brings back the realization of the situation you’re still in. You don’t know if you can die in a book, but you know you don’t want to find out.
Rainbow puts her face to the window and starts making silly faces at the wolf, “Not so tough are you hmmm?” Rainbow continues to mock the wolf, the wolf leaves the sight of the window. You look on and start to wonder if that’s such a good idea.
“Rainbow” She counties to make faces at the wolf, “Rainbow!” She looks down to you “What can’t you see I’m having fun?”
You stare at her “How does this story end? Because in mine they burn the wolf from a chimney.” You look around the room and then back to her “Where is the chimney?”
Rainbow’s face gets really pale and her ears drop down to the side of her face. “The wolf breaks the glass of the window and...” Rainbow backs away from the window and looks to you. “Oh man what do we do?”
Rainbows rushed tone is freighting to you, if someone who is always tough is scared then there must be a real treat. Your ears feel hot as the realism of the situation dawns on you. You would question why this a little fillies book but you’re more stuck on why she wants to think of something.
“Why me?”
Rainbow searches the room for a way out as she talks “I don’t know Twilight always has plans and you are always with her so think of something!”
You try to think of something but your mind is stuck on the fact that you're stuck with somepony who is a holder of an element of harmony, which from what you have been told is some kind of ultimate power. But yet she is asking you for a plan...great.
The other three ponies in the room have been silently listening until now; Hay-barrel starts to talk “What are you looking for?”
Rainbow puts her hooves around the yellow pony “Ya a way out, you got one?”
The three ponies look at each other and then all talk at the same time, “But this is how it ends?”
Rainbow looks back to you “That’s creepy right?” Her tone is cracky and high pitched.
You nod your head; truth is you would try to say something but the ponies talking at the same time in perfect unison really freaks you out.
Rainbow continues to search the room “I don’t see a way out!”
You look at her as a thought start to charge into your mind “Are you sure?”
Rainbow shakes her head.
“Great!”
Rainbow backs away from you, “Are you ok?”
you get up from the ground as your plan start to form “NO, really look.” You hoof to the door, that is made of bricks. “A wolf can’t open that, all we have to do is trap him in here!”
Rainbow blows at you as she rubs your head with her hoof “Oh ya smart guy and what do we block the window with?”
You smile at her “A rock.”
Rainbow looks you over “A rock?”
You shake your head “Well bricks.” You’re proud that this plan doesn’t involve running into something.
Rainbow looks around the room “OK … we're doomed”
You grab her hoof “Each house is made of hay, wood or brick, right?” She nods her head. “And each house has those things outside.”
You look to the grey pony “Brick-barrel, do you have a slab of bricks or something that can cover a window?”
The grey mare shakes her head and looks at you “Ummm next to the door there is a new brick wall I was building, but it is far too heavy for you to lift.”
You nudge Hay-barrel and Wood-barrel “We need your help.”
They shake their heads as they look like they break a daze and look to you “Ok.” There low tone is not a very reassuring but you guess it’s close enough.
“Hey Rainbow how long does the wolf….” Your question is answered as you hear glass break behind you; you five scramble to put the plan together, Rainbow darts out of the room first with the barrels behind her. As you go for the door it slams shut.
You look to the wolf, your heartbeat that a second ago was fuelled by adrenaline is now fuelled by fear. The wolf starts to circle you; your breathing is rushed as you feel the wolf getting closer. You look toward the window, it is not blocked by the bricks yet and you might be able to reach it if you run. But your legs feel weak and you’re too scared to run.
As the wolf growls you hear Rainbows voice “Run!” You watch as bricks fly into the room, one of the bricks hits the wolf and you take that as your moment to rub, you gallop towards the window and jump through it. As you hit the ground you look back toward the window as the Barrels push a pile of bricks over the window’s opening.
Your heart still beats sporadically as you realize how bad ass you feel right now “That worked!?”
Rainbow lands next to you and is talking in a very girlish high pitched voice “THAT WAS AWESOME!” She starts motioning with her hooves “You were all.” You listen to her bad impression of you “Hey Rainbow stones. And I was all are you crazy? And then and then I saved you from the wolf! OH man you should see your face!”
You stare at her as you start to calm down; you don’t understand how she can be so calm after all that has happened. “You guys have adventures like that all the time?”
Rainbow thinks for a moment “Well ya? Sometimes we are against weirdoes like Discord or Queen Chrysalis.”
You think about the two names “YA I don’t ever want to think about Chrysalis again.” Your head twitches a bit as you say that but you blame hitting the ground for the twitch.
Rainbow sets down beside you as you get off the ground. “Ok we made it through the story…now get us out of here.”
You stand in silent for a few moments. Rainbow nodes you “Well?”
You look at her “What?”
Her girlish voice is replaced by her normal tomboyish tone “Do the spell.”
You stare at her “I didn’t bring us here?”
Rainbow voice now is in a yelling tone “WHAT do you mean?!”
Hay-barrel chimes in “You know you could…”
Rainbow snaps at Hay-barrel “Shut it hayseed.” She snaps back to you “I am not going to be stuck her in a book do you hear….”
You don’t know why but you for some reason have just leaned forward and kissed her. As your break the kiss you think to yourself, WHAT THE HELL?! Why did I just do that?
Rainbow stares at you speechless.
“Ummm Rainbow I ….”
Your sentence is cut short by a blinding purple light that has seem to sprung from nowhere. Rainbow grabs on to you as the ground seems to melt beneath your feet. You both look to Hay-barrel for help. But she just smiles and does nothing as the ground further swallows you.
End of chapter 4