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// First Day 
// Story: Remembrance 
// by LunarEklipse 
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	The trip to the surface was a very long and painful one. She had not realized that the cave had gone this deep. Several times during the ascent her ears popped to adjust to the changing air pressure as she increased in elevation. However, she did not stop for anything, and after a few hours of walking into the darkness, she could see light.

Satisfied that she had found the surface, Twilight proceeded towards the light to find a large opening sprawling into a heavy forest. Past that, she could see desert endlessly. No type of settlement could be seen in any direction. Using the sun as reference, she decided to head north, Heading straight from where the cave entrance came to the surface.

For the first day, it was mainly uneventful. Twilight walked in the same direction, but had managed to sate her hunger and thirst with a patch of blueberries and a small stream she encountered along the way. By the end of the first day, she set up a camp under a large willow tree, using her magic to gather dead branches hanging high up on tall trees for a fire. By the time the sun had disappeared and the moon had taken its place, Twilight had a small fire burning that kept her fairly warm. She sat by it for a few hours in silence, confined to her thoughts while the wood crackled and popped in its majestic flame. By the time the moon was reaching its peak, she had laid down and slowly faded away into sleep. The soft layer of dirt covered in grass was much more comfortable than the stone floor she had woken up on that morning. The wind, blowing in her face felt comforting at first, but eventually began to blow ash from her fire into her face so she moved to the opposite side. There, she dozed off into a peaceful slumber.

A strange sound coming from the bushes woke the mare up quickly. Her eyes snapped open, and she sat up and looked around in paranoia that it may be an attacker. The fire had burned out, leaving nothing but hot coals and a trail of smoke. The wind blew much more harsh than previously, forcing her mane to follow it. Whipping around her face. Pulling her mane behind her back, she laid down again, to fall asleep again. She was about to doze off when a large figure jumped at her from the bushes snarling. Frightened, she jumped up and began to back away, while the massive beast approached her,  howling at the top of its lungs. A terrible odor came from the creature. Soon, its howls were joined by those of more of those creatures. Upon inspecting at the creature further, she realized what her attackers were; Timberwolves.

Turning to run, twilight stumbled over a small rock, sending her flying face first into a large rock. A loud crack was heard, and a surge of pain went through her face. When she, dazed, pulled her head up, a small splatter of blood was left on the rock from her nose. The Timberwolf could sense it too, appearing to be more stimulated than before. After assuring that her nose was not broken, Twilight got up to run again, but the claws of her attacker reached her back leg, and she screamed in pain as she fell over again. The Timberwolf then caught up and bit her leg in a successful attempt to disable her movement. Twilight screamed again as her back left leg was severely mauled by the creature. The rest of the Timberwolf pack had caught up, and Twilight looked up to the nearest one to be met with a nasty snarl, the creature's bloody teeth showing in her face. Trying to crawl away, the rest of the Timberwolves joined the attack, They began to bite and scratch her, and she could do nothing but scream louder.. She could take her blood in her mouth now and could feel streams of it running down her body. She began to feel light headed. But that's when the idea popped in her head. Timberwolves. They're wood. I need fire! Fire! Pulling a branch from a nearby tree with her magic, she ran it through the burning coals and the branch quickly burst into flame, she jabbed it into her nearest attacker, lighting the thing ablaze and turning it into a pile of ash. She managed to do the same with the second Timberwolf but the third had dodged the flaming stick. It used its teeth to pull the end that was untouched by the blaze out of Twilight's influence and ran it into the ground, smothering it. Twilight looked at herself. Her fur was starting to turn red and she felt like she was about to pass out. As the Timberwolf got ready to renew its attack, A mysterious figure rammed into the creature, sending it sprawling against a large boulder. Another figure appeared with a flaming stick and began to burn the Timberwolf. Soon, it was a pile of ash no different than the other Timberwolves. Twilight looked at the figure. A mare and a stallion, undeniably familiar to her, stood over her to inspect her. Then, with her blood slowly starting to cover the ground, her consciousness started to fade away.

"She's definitely alive. We have to get her back home the doctor can treat her."

"E-yup."

"C'mon Big Mac. You're the only one who could handle her weight."

Twilight could feel someone pick her up and put her on another. She had a brief glimpse of her savior, an orange mare who had a familiar face, but Twilight could not remember who it was. She couldn't remember anything. The tree she was leaning on and the grass that was below her were as red as her coat now. As the mare pulled her hoofs away, they were blood covered too. Most likely from her.

"We gotta get back quick if we're gonna save her life. We'll keep it strapped down to make sure it ain't a changelin', but they bleed green, not red. Still, it ain't worth takin' the risk."

The stallion began to run through the forest, following the mare. Twilight could barely hold onto her consciousness now. She faded in and out. Always seeing trees quickly passing by every time, however, the saturation had gone completely, making it impossible for her to see colors. She could no longer keep herself conscious, and the last thought that came to her mind was That mare just saved my life before she finally passed out.