//------------------------------// // Trolololol // Story: Burning Souls // by Redwolf15 //------------------------------// Chapter Two ********** "You can't be serious..." Allison says seeing the unmistakable town of Ponyville. "How do you know that we're not just imagining this? In fact, how do I know that I'm not just imagining you!" "I think being an Arcanine is more preferable than a pony." Answering her question indirectly. "Oh that's right. There's no way that I can imagine anybody as dumb as you." She sighs, not sure whether to be a bit happy to be sent to Equestria or ticked that she's not even on Earth. "If that's Ponyville, then that means we're in the Everfree." Drex whistles, impressed. "And we didn't come across anything trying to kill us. I guess this forest isn't all that bad." He remembers from the show how every time anyone entered the Everfree, some form of trouble followed them. Poison Joke, Manticores, Parasrites, and even the Mirror Pond. But they came out without anything trying to kill, maim, scare, or cause any sort of trouble for them. "That also means that the castle we were in was the same one that held the Elements of Harmony. No wonder it looked familiar." Allison says as her memory clicks in as to why that castle looked so familiar. "This is perfect!" Drex announces out loud. "Perfect? How could this be perfect? Granted, even I can't deny that I'd prefer to be in Equestria than the poke-world. But how is this perfect?" "Think about it Ally," Drex puts an arm around his friend's shoulder. "Who is the most gifted unicorn in magic?" "Twilight Sparkle?" She answers. "And who is her mentor?" "Celestia." She answers seeing him going somewhere with this. "And what is Celestia basically?" "A god!" "Give the lady a prize! All we have to do is ask Twilight for an audience with Celestia, and then she can send us home. Easy as pie." "I must say Drex, I didn't think that you'd be able to think of something so ingenious." She says half impressed and half sarcastic. "Well, let's get a move on!" "Hold it!" He stops her before she takes another step out of the forest. "Think about this carefully Ally, are you sure that you want to march into town asking everyone there where a certain unicorn is?" She sighs again, knowing that tone in his voice. "What do you have in mind?" She knew she was going to regret asking that. "How many times do we get a chance to mess with someone's mind? We'll go into town and look for Twilight, the library is probably the best place to start." He starts with the basic plan; then comes the twist. "But we pretend to stay basic animals." Allison's eyebrow raises, both spiking her interest and indicating for him to go on. "Okay look, we don't say a peep and act like a basic animal. Then we reveal ourselves when the time is right. Just think of the expressions on their faces. It'll be hilarious." Allison bites the bottom of her lip, thinking whether to go for it or not. She finally comes to her conclusion. "Okay, I'll play along." A chuckle comes to Drex upon her agreement. They walk side by side through a field, not saying anything. Drex was trying hard to stay in character while Allison had so many thoughts swimming through her mind. They reach the city border, and right off the bat they get all kinds of looks from ponies and a lot of whispers. Some ponies ran away and into the nearest home and slam the door closed, scared of the new strangers. A few trailed them for a while, but once Drex or Allsion noticed that, the trailing ponies stopped following and ran away. Drex was fine with it, he remembered how the town reacted to Zecora, and it was no great deal to him. But Allison was less comfortable, she didn't find them to scare or intimidate her, but she just didn't like to be the center of attention, and she hated that many feared her. They finally reached the library and Drex was about to burst with excitement. He pushes the door open only to find the place empty. No Twilight around reading a book or anything. Drex grunts in disappointment, until they see a pile of books moving around, and two purple feet behind said books. It was unmistakably Spike. "He can't see us, we can have fun without blowing our cover until he does see us." Drex whispers to his friend, then in a louder voice he addresses Spike. " 'Scuse me, we're trying to find someone and was told she lives here." "Oh, you must mean Twilight. I'm afraid she's not here right now. She's with some friends at the moment." Spike's voice came from behind the books. "Well could you tell us where she might be?" Allison asks. "Try Sugarcube Corner. I think she might be there." "Well we're from out of town so we don't know the way. Do you think you can show us the way?" Drex asks motioning towards the walking pile of books. "It's easy to find, just look for the building that looks like a gingerbread house." "Well you see, we need to see her pronto, so we can't waste any time. We see that you're busy right now, but do you think that you can guide us there?" "Well I'm sure she wouldn't mind that I take a break to help you if it's important." Spike sets the books downand appears from behind them. He instantly stops mid stride as he comes face-to-face with something completely new to him. "What? Do I have something on my face?" Drex paws around, moving the puffs of fur. "What are you?" Spike asks finding his tongue. "Goodness boy, don't you know it's incredibly rude to ask someone what they are? Someone should teach you propper manners." Drex asks pretending to be offended in his most formal voice. "I'm really sorry, I've just never seen anything like you before sir. And you just surprised me, and-" Spike starts in a panic, not wanting to seem rude to these two creatures. But Drex couldn't keep up the charade and starts laughing. "Ease up shorty, I'm messing with you!" He relieves Spike. "Don't worry, I know how strange the two of us look. But in all seriousness, we really do need to see Twilight this instant, so will you still lead us to her?" Spike begins to laugh, catching on to the joke. "Okay, that was pretty funny." He opens the door, not bothered anymore. "So why do you need to see Twilight?" "We need to see the Princess, and we hear that Twilight is her student." Allison answers following Spike out the library. "So why do you need to see Princess Cesetia?" "So we can find our way home. We have no clue where we are or how to get back. So we thought maybe the Princess can help with that." "You don't have to go to the princess for that," Spike stops in his tracks. "We have maps back at the library. I could find you a world map and we'd be able to figure it out without them." "Sorry shorty," Drex rubs his paw over Spike's head. "But where we come from can't be found on a map. And we can't retrace our steps because when we say we have no clue where we are, we mean we have no clue where we are." "We're here." Allison speaks up. "No, Ally, I know we're here, but where is here? I mean yeah, we know what this town is called and the country, but where--" "No you idiot," His friend says cutting him off. "I mean we're here, at Sugarcube Corner." "Oh, what do you know." In that short time span of a walk the only three people that aren't ponies in the town make it to their destination of the gingerbread looking building. "Hey kid," Drex stops Spike before he can open the door. "My name is Spike, by the way, so you can quit with the 'kid' and 'short' stuff. Besides I'm still a growing dragon." Spike stops him. "Alright, Spike." Drex adds extra emphasis on saying his name. "Listen, so you know how shocked you were to see us?" Spike nods his head. "Well just think how surprised Twilight and her friends will be when they find out we can talk." "Um..." Spike wasn't following. "Okay look, I want to prank them. Think about it, Ally and I will stay quiet and pretend to just be regular animals. You show us to the others, they fall for it, then when they least expect it, we start talking. Just think of the looks on their faces!" Spike starts tapping his chin with his index finger and thinks about it hard. But before he could get a chance to decide, the door to Sugarcube Corner opens and out popps the most distinguishable pony ever known. The one pony that everyone knows. The one pony that makes the most crazy and random everythings to ever exist. Pinkie Pie. The pink pony merrily stolled out of Sugarcube Corner with one her trademark smiles, eyes closed. But that all changed when she opens them to see two unfamiliar figures with Spike. What was she thinking? What would she do? Scream? Laugh? (most likely). Something random? (even more likely). "Ooooooh, you look fluffy." Pinkie Pie without any warning gives Drex the biggest bone crushing-hug he's ever felt, but it was strangley comforting at the same time. "You're so cute, I'm gonna call you Fluffy!" The ony response Drex could give was a bark. "And there's another one. Ohmygosh she has nine tails!" Pinkie Pie pops in front of Allison in a mere instant. "Spike where'd you find them they're so cool and cute and different and friendly and nice and fluffy and different, cute--" "Uh Pinkie, you used cute twice." Spike points out. "That's because they're twice cute Spikey." A low grumbling sound is heard, three of them have no clue as to what it was or where it came from. It's heard again and they look at Drex, holding his stomach. "Aw, is Fluffy hungry? Don't worry, aunt Pinkie will get you something." She zooms into Sugarcube Corner without even touching the door as it opens and closes by itself. "Yeah, that's Pinkie. She's fun but a little on the rambunctious side." Spike giving his unneeded explanation. Then Pinkie comes back in the very same instant after Spike was finished talking. "... And one's fluffy who I'm going to call Fluffy and he has a friend that has nine tails who I think I'm going to call Niney and she looks so cute and it looks like her coat is made from gold and I was going to give her a hug too but then we heard this sound that went 'ggree!' and we didn't know what it was but then we found out that it was Fluffy's stomach because he's hungry so now I'm giving him food so he won't be hungry anymore." They hear the pink pony before seeing her. And they heard that entire sentence without her pausing for breath or adding a period. But you couldn't say the same for the next five to follow behind. "This I'd like to see." Rainbow Dash replies. And see she did! Pinkie Pie put down a plate of delicious looking cupcakes. They were the most mouth watering cupcakes that Drex and Allison have ever seen. Drex doesn't waste any time chowing down, and the cupcakes tasted better than they looked. "See? Isn't Fluffy fluffy?" Without warning, Drex began wagging his tail; he didn't know why he was doing it or how, but it felt nice. Maybe because he was happy and because Arcanine is related to a dog. "Pinkie?" Twilight speaks up. "What are they?" Spike and Drex give each other a look, and Spike chuckles to himself. "What's so funny Spike?" "Oh nothing." He says innocently. "I don't know Twily, but they seem fun." Pinkie answers and proceeds to pet 'Fluffy'. "My goodness, I don't know what to say about the big one, but the other one is just fabulous." Rarity says looking at Allison. And who could deny it, her coat was like glittering gold. Allison takes the compliment kindly and blushes. "Well I'll admit it, they actually do look pretty cool, not as cool as me though." Rainbow Dash says as she flies over them. "But still, what are they? What do you think Fluttershy? Have you seen them before?" "No, I can't say I have Dash. And none of my animal friends have ever mentioned anything like these two." The meek yellow one says in her adorable fashion. "Hoo nelly, that ones got an appetite! But why ain't the other one eatin'? Ain't she hungry?" Applejack asks seeing how much Drex is chowing down. Drex couldn't take it anymore, he thought it was time to open the box. "Good question. Hey Ally, you want any of these? Because they are too good to go to waste!" He asks his quiet friend with a mouth full of treats. "No thanks, I'm good." She answers with a smirk. "Suit yourself." He shrugs and goes back to eating. The mouths of all the mares but Pinkie's dropped so far that they looked they threatend to hit the ground. A good number of seconds passed by as Drex blissfully ate his cupcakes and Allison stood there silently as ever. Both taking great pleasure in the reactions they were given. "You can talk?" Twilight finally asks coming out of her shocked state. She was not expecting that to happen. "Yup, we can talk." Drex confirms trying to lick the excess icing off his face. "Damn this is tough. Stupid fur." "Why didnt you say anything before?" The cheapest toothy grin came across Drex's face, trying to scrunch it up. "You didn't ask." Twilight's face soon shifted from shocked to anger, and Drex was rewarded with a slap to the back of his head from Allison. "Stupid troll." She says. "Ow, hey. You'd be considered one too going with my plan. Which, was hilarious by the way." That remark brought Twilight out of her rage and into her curiosity. "Wait, you two are trolls?" She asks, expecting a troll to look different. "What?" Drex asks taking a little offense, then his memory kicked into gear. "Oh that's right, not the same definition. No we are not trolls, back where we come from a troll has another definition." "Okay, but a question: where are you from?" Twilight asks still confused. "That's exactly why we'd like to talk to you." Ally answers, knowing that she'll make this coversation go by a lot faster. "But maybe we should go inside first."