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// Chapter 4 
// Story: Everfree Alpha 
// by redpyramid1 
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	'Why oh why did I ever say that damn sentence!' thought Colt as he walked through some bushes. Colt had gotten lost after about an hour of walking. He tried heading back but had tripped on a tree's root, and fell down a small hill. when he stood up from his fall and had gotten a look around. Colt found that he had fallen into a small canyon. He cursed under his breath and made his way back up the small hill. 
As Colt made it to the top of the hill, he decided to take a break. Picking a tree at random Colt made his way to it and sat down.

'Ok, so... Which way did i come from?' Colt was looking left and right, trying to figure out which direction he should go.
'Ah screw it, cant get any worse... Damnit.' Getting up, Colt resumed walking in a random direction.

after about an hour, Colt had found what looked like a dirt road. Heading in two directions Colt walked into the middle of the road and looked around. one side looked like the trees grew denser. While the other side was lightening up. Colt decided on taking the lighter path and began walking. But as he started to walk he herd a scream. Colt's head jerked in the direction it came from. 'What, I'm not alone?' Hearing another scream he bolted towards it. Hoping to find another human being in this weird new world. 





Fluttershy had been walking for an hour now, and she had managed to get herself lost. Whats worst was that there was a Cockatrice right in front of her. Frozen in fear Fluttershy could only watch as the creature turned her into stone.
"Please help me, anypony HELP ME!" Exclaimed Fluttershy as she felt stone crawling up her legs, and start on her chest. Shutting her eyes she thought of all her littler critter friends that would miss her. She thought of all her best friends that would miss her. And she would never figure out what that light in the Everfree Forest was. Flttershy was about to cry out in sadness, when she heard the sound of something hard hitting something. like a baseball bat hitting a tree. Opening her eyes she look on in awe at the creature before her. It was tall, maybe even taller than Celestia herself. What was more interesting was that it was Bipedal, and look almost like apart of the forest. 'Like a Chameleon' thought Fluttershy. The creature craned its head around, and stared at her. Not wanting to be a bad pony, she decided to introduce herself to it.

"H-hello there Little creature. Thank you for saving me from that mean ol' Cockatrice. My name is Fluttershy." She chirped out at the last part. 





Colt had just save a pony by kicking a weird bird snake thingy right into a tree. Weird right? Well what was weirder was the fact that, that same pony the he saved just talked to him. Naa, foreals it did. It spoke in perfect English.
'Soo... guess i'm not on earth anymore. Well then, that's good to know.' 
He had been staring at the creature for a while now not really realizing it. But when he did he tried to say something back but found that to be quit difficult. 

'Damn you Shyness, even in another world, with another species you screw me over.'

Turning his head back to the fallen body of the Cockatrice he walked up to it. 
Crouching, he started to examine it. This creature was one of the weirdest one's he's ever seen. It has the body of a snake, but the head of a chicken. wings with red at the tips, and chicken legs. how strange. Colt could see that the creature was still breathing which led him to believe that he just knocked it out. Hearing footsteps behind him he turned his head to get a better look at the pony. It's body is a butterscotch yellow, with a pink... mane? Yeah, I think that's what its called. It also had... wings? huh well then. 

'Never thought i'd ever see a Pegasus in real life. Checking that off on my bucket list.' 
The pony walked up to the Cockatrice and looked it over. 
"Oh my. The poor thing. It must have hit it's head pretty hard." She said. 

'What? your feeling sorry for it after it just tried to... turn you into stone? Seriously?' 

"We can't just leave him here all alone. what if another creature comes along and attacks it while it's asleep?" She said, yes i'm pretty sure its a she. 
'Whats this 'We' thing you're talking about?' 

The pony was stared at Colt expectantly. sighing, Colt looked around. He's in a small clearing. There are some big leaves off to the edge of the clearing. Getting up he walked over to the leaves and picked them  up. He walked back and kneeled down next to the Cockatrice. The pony watched as Colt put the leaves over the fallen creature. Hiding it from anything nearby. The pony seemed to be entranced by his hands. working together to fix up a small blanket of leaves, to protect it from other animals. 

Standing up, Colt looked over the pile of leaves. making sure he couldn't see any part of the Cockatrice. He then turned his head over to the pony. It too was looking the pile over. 
"Well I guess that'll work too." The pony turned it's body over to Colt's direction.

Colt was standing still. Not sure what to do at the moment. That is, until the pony decided to take a closer look at him. 
"Iv'e never seen your kind before." said the pony. 
she walked closer to Colt, but stopped when Colt took a step back. 

"Oh, don't worry little guy. I wont hurt you. I just wanna take a better look at you." She said as she walked closer and closer to Colt. Not knowing what to do, Colt let the pony examine him. Besides, he's pretty sure he can handle one little pony if, on the off chance it attacks him. The pony looked him over up and down. Absorbing each and ever feature of his body. sitting on her rump the pony began to speak.

"hmm. What kind of animal are you." She grew a face of thought. that was interrupted by the sound of a growl. Looking at the creature it looked a little embarrassed. well she thought it was embarrassed. She couldn't see Its face. Only it's eyes. The creature had one of it's appendages on it's stomach.  
"Hungry? wanna have some lunch with me?" she asked. Taking it's hand of it's stomach. The creature grunted in affirmation.

"Well, I do have some apples on me. Would you like that?" Colt grunted again.
"Well lets go somewhere else. Preferably somewhere not in the forest." with that said the pony started to walk away. Colt decided to fallow her. The thought of getting some Delicious apples after eating that ration sounded great. 

'I'll have to come back soon. Find my way back home. Ah well, that can wait for a bit.' Colt fallowed the pony while chanting in his mind 'Apples, Apples'