//------------------------------// // Final entries // Story: Adventures in Pre-Equestria // by Eclipse Blackblood //------------------------------// For as long as I can remember, we've lived underground. For as long as my parents can remember, we've lived underground. For as long as their parents remembered when they were still around, we've lived underground. We've lived underground, all nearly one hundred of us, for longer than anypony could possibly remember. And I messed all of it up. All of our rules are their for our safety, and I broke the biggest one. You see, every time the monsters come, we run, and we hide. We don't fight back, we don't protect the foals and the elderly, we just get back in our houses, and save ourselves. We only save ourselves. I don't like that rule, so I broke it. I fought back. My parents found out. They were so angry at me. I'm still sore a week later. I just want to go home. Let me tell you, dear diary, the one friend who didn't abandon me, what happened on that day. Or would It be that night? I can never be sure which it is. =============================================================================================== It was just another normal day (night?) and then the monsters cam again. Normally most of them are weird slime things, with a few ponies made of bones, but this time it was mostly bone ponies. I was playing with my other "friends" in the mushroom fields when they came. We never saw them coming. Truffle and Chryssie were the only two caught. Sometimes I still hear them screaming. Everypony else got away, except for me. I was hiding in a pile of mushrooms that got cut down, and a saw something that saved my life. When on of the bone ponies found me, I hit it in the head as hard as I could with the ax I found. None of the other bone ponies found me, but the grown-up ponies form the village did. They saw the bone pony, they saw the ax in it's head. They saw what I did, that I fought back, that I didn't run and hide. But I did save myself. That's why we run, I didn't know I'd be in trouble. I didn't know what they would do to me. I only found out just before I started writing this. I have to leave forever, and I don't have a choice. and they won't let me bring an ax, even though that's what my Cutie Mark is. =============================================================================================== I'm so hungry. I'm sorry, but I had to eat a few of your pages to make it stop hurting. I think I might have to eat more of them. I've had plenty of water, and the monsters haven't found me yet, but I don't have any food. I don't know how long it's been since they made me leave, but I do know I still hear Truffle and Chryssie screaming, more then I used to. Why won't they stop screaming, don't they hear me telling them I'm coming? I thought I found them, but I was just some rock that were trying to trick me. Why did the rock want to trick me? Why don't the cave want me to find my friends? WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER? Something's coming, and getting closer. It's scrapping at the other side of the wall. Did one of the monster's find us? I'm going to hide you in case they did. I'll be in this room, I won't abandon you. Don't worry, I'll keep you safe.