A Zebra and Some Poison Joke
I began to play a small tune on my ocarina... Right, let me tell you how I got the ocarina.
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Link picked himself off of the ground and watched Ganondorf ride on his horse after the Princess. He has to help her, but he is still you too weak and too young to do that. But what did Zelda throw into the moat?
Link turns back to the gate of Hyrule Castle and walks up to the small river. He peers into the body of water and watches Navi, the annoying blue fairy, hover over the sparkling object. He jumps in and dives under to grab it. The boy swims back up and holds the Ocarina of Time like everything else he does.
(Just watch a clip of what happens next)
Link opened his eyes to see nothing but the field of Hyrule. How did he get out of the water? He doesn't know, nor does he care. He just needs to get the door open.
He spins around and walks into another person.
"Oof!" the other person shouts. Link looks up to see a boy, a few years older than him. He just stares at him, surprised that he didn't hear him.
"Right, you don't know me, nor do you care. I'm not here for anything important, just your ocarina." Link pulls out his kid-sized sword and gets ready to fight. "Pfft! My words are worse than that thing! Anyways, I'm not here to fight, I just need the ocarina." Link didn't move at all. "I mean your fairy ocarina, not the blue one."
Link raised an eyebrow. He forgot he had two ocarinas! Well, he didn't need two, so he could give it to the stranger. But Saria wouldn't be too happy...
He pulled out the tan instrument and gazed upon it before giving it to the boy. He accepted it gratefully.
"Thanks. And don't worry, I'm sure your friend will be okay with it. Now go save Hyrule." Link nodded and ran into the city. But his ears will never forget that strange thunder that crashed though the town.
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Now that you know, I-
"Psst!" I flipped my head up and prepared myself for the snake. After finding none, I continued walking. I had the day off from work, so that leaves me with nothing to do.
"Psst!" I twisted my head around again, and searched the buildings. They're all dark, and the windows and doors are shut. Except for the top half of the door to Sugarcube Cor-
"Christian!" Pinkie's head jumped out from the top half of the open door. I narrowed my eyes to get a better look, but get a face full of Pinkie. "Get in here! Hurry!" She loudly whispered, her head disappearing once again inside.
I slowly looked around before walking inside, my mind full of questions. I hopped in through the open half and look around. "Uh, Pinkie? It's a bit dark in here." A flashlight shined in my eyes suddenly. "Never mind."
"She didn't see you, did she?" Pinkie asked with the light below her chin.
"Who? And might I ask why you're alone in the dark, although I might not want to know."
"I'm not alone." I looked around to get a good view of five ponies faces a few inches below mine, one of them another foot.
"Hey guys." I said. I took a quick head count. "Where's Twilight?"
"I don't know, probably locked up in the library, hiding from her!" Rainbow Dash pulled back a curtain to reveal a hooded figure in the middle of the road, digging up a mound of dirt.
"Why would you hide from her?" I asked. The figure turned from her mound of dirt to us, causing all the ponies in the room to hide from the windows. Pinkie pulled me away from the window.
"Because she's evil!" She said, not three inches from my face. I stared at her face for a few seconds before looking around, but she stayed in my vision.
"Is that it?" I asked with a voice like Private from Madagascar. I love asking that question like that.
"What?! Don't you understand anything about evil?" She asked, nearing closer. I backed away so nothing of our anatomy touches and makes it seem like what it's not.
"Uh, no. But I can shout evil loudly. Ahem, E-!" My shout is cut off by a pink hoof. Pinkie pulled out a piece of rope from her mane and tied my hands together, then another piece for my feet. A piece of cloth is pulled out as well, and used to gag me.
"If you don't think she is evil, then you must be evil as well! And that's why you must be kept silent." Pinkie said. None of the other ponies responded to my pleading gaze, except for Applejack who put me on her back and carries me to a corner.
"Whew, you're a heavy one," The farm pony said barely exhausted. She ignored my glare and joined the rest of the group.
After a couple of minutes, Pinkie called in Twilight by warning her of getting caught. The unicorn also jumps I'm through the top half of the door. Pinkie closes it and shines the flashlight in her face as well.
"Who? The zombie pony?" Spike asks worriedly.
"Zo-o-o-ombie pony?!" Pinkie shool the flashlight under her face from fear.
"Spike, there are no zombie ponies!" Spike got off of her back, still looking worried. "Pinkie, what are you doing alone here in the dark?"
"I'm not alone in the dark." The room somehow brightens slightly to reveal the other ponies.
"Okay then, what are you all doing in the dark?"
"We're hidin' from her!" Applejack pulled back the once closed curtains to reveal the hooded figure still digging at the dirt. The ponies stared at her in fear, except for Twilight, before the cloaked pony turned to them, revealing yellow spots for eyes. Yes, even from my dark corner on the ground, I can still see her. The ponies react the same way, save for Twilight who glares at them.
Apple Bloom put her fore hooves on Spike's head to elevate herself. "Didja see her, Twilight? Didja see Zecora?"
"Apple Bloom! I told ya ta never say that name!" Applejack scolded.
"Hey, she's not Lord Voldemort," I attempt to peak, but ends up coming out more as "Hmf, shmfs mf mhrd vhldmhmf."
Twilight turned to the corner where I lay before rushing over to me. "What happened?"
"Apparently, I'm evil now according to Pinkie." I rubbed my mouth to get the feeling back from the cloth. "As I was saying... Nevermind."
"What have you done, Twilight?!" Pinkie dashed towards me, but I stuck out my hand to stop her. She comically collides with the appendage, her hooves still flying forwards.
"Pinkie. If I was evil, the town would be burned to a crisp." I retort monotonously. "Anyway, Apple Bloom had a question Twilight needed to answer."
"Yes, Apple Bloom, I saw her glance this way." Twilight said to the filly.
"Glance evilly this way." Pinkie interjected, forgetting about me. Twilight ignored her.
"And then a bunch of you flipped out for no good reason."
"No good reason?! You call protectin' yer kin no good reason?" Applejack asked as she pulls her sister closer. "Why, as soon as mah sister saw Zecora ridin' inta town, she started shaking her lil' horse shoes." She begins shaking her sister emphasize.
"Di-i-id no-o-o-ot." The filly said through being shaken.
"So Ah swept her up an' brought her here." The filly was thrown onto her sister's back to prove it.
"Ah walked here mahself!" Apple Bloom cried out.
"Fer safe keepin'"
"Applejack! Ah'm not a baby! Ah can take care o' mahself!" Apple Bloom crawled off.
"Not from that creepy Zecora." Applejack argued back.
"She's mysterious." Fluttershy stated.
"She's sinister." Rainbow added.
"And spoooooky!" Pinkie said.
"And normal." I gave in. Pinkie readied herself to jump on me, but a glare from me kept her down. Twilight rolled her eyes and turned back to the window, only to get assaulted from behind by every pony else. That's what she said. I just sat back and continued whistling whatever crap song I was playing before. Pinkie made me drop my ocarina, dammit. Zecora pulled back her hood to reveal her earrings, neck bands, and Mohawk, along with the stripes. Every pony gasped at the sight. I waited a second before mock gasping after everyone was done.
"Will you cut that out?" Twilight demanded.
"No!"
"Just look at those stripes! So garish." Rarity complained.
"She's a zebra." Twilight said.
"A what?!" Every pony shouted.
"Ahem. The zebra, a horselike mammal from Africa with black and white stripes and is from the genus group of Equus." I say all nerd-like.
"And her stripes aren't a fashion choice, Rarity," Twilight added, "they're what she was born with." Rarity held a hoof too her head in a drama queen fashion and fell over with a whimper.
"But what's Africa? I've never heard of that place." Applejack asked.
"It's a places on Earth where zebras are mostly found. But I don't know the name of the place the zebras here live."
"My books say that zebras come from a far away land, but I've never seen her in Ponyville. Where does she live?" Twilight aske d.
"That's just it. She lives in tha Everfree Forest!" Applejack' exclaimed. A loud boom resonates through the building, much like lightning.
"I didn't do it!" I shouted with hands over my head.
"Spike!" Twilight called to the kitchen.
"Eh, sorry." Spike apologized with a cupcake in his claw.
"Tha Everfree Forest just ain't natural! The plants grow..." Applejack said first.
"... The animals care for themselves..." Fluttershy second.
"And the clouds move-" Said Rainbow.
"All on their own!" The other two ponies join Rainbow on that one.
"Oh my gosh! Sounds just like Earth!" I slapped my face in fake surprise. Rarity fell over the exact same way again.
"And that evil enchantress, Zecora," Pinkie piped up, "doing her evil, uh, stuff! She's so evil, I even wrote a song about her!"
"Here we go..." Rainbow complained.
She's an evil ENCHANTRESS!
And she does evil DANCES!
And if look into her EYES,
She'll put in TRANCES!
And what will she DO?
She'll mix up an evil BREW!
And she'll gobble you UP!
In a big tasty STEW!
So, WATCH OUT!
"Wow. Catchy," Twilight remarked.
"It's a work in progress."
"Needs to be changed a bit if you ask me," I mumbled.
"This is all just a lot of gossip and rumors. Now tell me, what exactly have you seen Zecora do?"
"Turn around and stare at us," I began.
"Not you, the others!"
"Well, once a month, she comes into Ponyville," Rainbow said.
"Ooh," sarcastic Twilight said.
"And, she lurks by the stores," Rarity added.
"My goodness!" I exclaimed.
"And then," the quietest of the group said, "she digs at the ground."
"I do that too... sometimes."
"How is any of this bad? Maybe she comes to visit," The purple one said.
"Yeah! Maybe she's just trying to be neighborly," the one with the bow said.
"And maybe she's not lurking by the stores, maybe she's going to them."
"Lurk-free," I mused.
"To do some shopping?"
"Yeah! Everypony likes to shop! You know what I think?-"
"Apple Bloom!" Applejack interrupted, "Hush and let the big ponies talk."
Apple Bloom walked out of the group while mumbling something under her breath.
"Come on, isn't she big enough to give her idea?" I asked. Sadly, I'm ignored again. I should probably speak up... Nah. That would just ruin the fun of this episode.
"What about digging at the ground? You gotta admit, that's weird," Rainbow Dash tried.
"Like before, I said that sometimes I dig at the ground. Sometimes."
"Why?"
"I dunno. Might find something useful, like a new plant or bug. And I'm bored." Rainbow just sadly shook her head at me.
"I told you to meet up with me near the lake to practice flying!"
"Well I'm sorry, but I've got a medical condition!"
"Really? What's that?" Fluttershy asks.
"Procrastination."
Rainbow facehoofed at my excuse. While she was distracted, I reached into my pocket and-
"Nowhere and everywhere!" I threw a smoke bomb on the ground, causing smoke to go everywhere. While everyone was blind and having a coughing fit, I quietly made it out the door and spotted Apple Bloom following the cloaked figure of Zecora.
"Christian!" Twilight shouts from the bakery.
I attempted to use some of my magic to turn me invisible. Just because I don't want to fly doesn't mean I'll learn magic. It's awesome. As the spell flowed over my skin and clothes, I took a look at how it works.
"God dammit!"
If one were to spot me, I would look like a glass creature or a ghost. In a rush of disappointment, I dispelled the spell and turned into a pegasus. If I can't become invisible, I'll have to be camouflaged.
I followed behind the filly as quietly as possible, staying in the shadows, the only noise is a few pebbles moving. She constantly checked behind herself to see if anypony were following her. Thankfully, she didn't notice me. I love wearing black, even if it is part of my body.
Soon we reached the Everfree Forest, with Apple Bloom close to the edge and me hiding behind a rather large bush. The filly looked scared before swallowing her fear and galloped into the trees. I waited a couple of seconds before following after her,
I admit, the forest is scary. If you know what is in there, then you will most likely be sane enough to not go in as far as possible. Why, with all the dangerous animals, possibly deadly plants, and lack of shelter, why would you go in there?
I got so caught up in my thoughts that I didn't notice the ponies behind me, nor the flowers starting to surround me.
"Apple Bloom? You git back here right now!" Applejack shouted.
"You too, Christian!" Twilight followed.
"I told you, it's Night!" I called back.
"Don't care!"
"Beware, beware you pony folk!" Zecora called as she backed away. "Those blue leaves are not a joke."
Applejack picked up Apple Bloom onto her back. "You keep your creepy mumbo jumbo to yourself, ya hear?" All the rest of the ponies, not including Twilight and Fluttershy, jeer at her as well.
"Beware! Beware..." Zecora's voice continued echoing until some random fog seals her away in the forest.
"Yeah! Back at ya Zecora! You and your lame curse are the ones who better beware!" Rainbow shouts at the fog.
"And you!" Applejack looks behind her at Apple Bloom, "Why couldn't ya just listen to your big sister?"
"Ah-"
"She's growing up," I defend Apple Bloom, "and it's part of growing that young ones sometimes disobey their- OW!"
"Nope. You get no say in the matter," Twilight told me as she pulled me back by my ear with her magic.
"Ugh. Yes, mother."
"As Ah was sayin' Apple Bloom, who knows what kinda curse she put on you?" Applejack restates.
"Guys, there's no such thing as curses!" Twilight argued.
"Well that's interesting to hear," Rainbow flies through the blue flowers-which I didn't notice we were standing in- tossing one into my yawning mouth, "coming from Miss Magic Pants herself."
"My magic, real magic, comes from within. It's a skill you're born with! Curses are artificial, fake magic! They're conjured with potions and smoke n' mirrors to appear!"
"Ptooey! These flowers taste terrible. Like raw blueberry pie."
"Eww!" everypony exclaimed.
"Why were you eating them anyways, darling?"
"Ask my flight coach. Anyways, let's get going."
We head back, reaching the outskirts in under ten minutes. Everypony headed back to their homes, and me going back to the cottage. I help Fluttershy feed her animals, then help her create a small dinner, then we go to our respective rooms for the night.
Why do I crave enchiladas?
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