Manehatten Rose:
Chapter 9- Zecora’s Hut:
Roseluck and me now stood just outside of the exotic and tribal looking hut, until Rose went ahead and knocked on the door.
“W-what?! I’m not ready to meet her just uh- yet!”
“Shhh…she’s coming,” she replied softly to me.
The door creaked open to the sight of what appeared to be a zebra from the looks of it. All I could see was her head out from behind her front door.
“Hmm, a familiar face of one I have seen…oh Roseluck, how long has it been?”
She seemed to rhyme like a professional too, it just sounded so natural when she rhymed. It was like it just rolled right off her tongue or something?
“Zecora, it’s so nice to see you after all of this time!” Roseluck greeted Zecora with a short hug, before breaking it up.
“Yes of course come in please.” Zecora then looked over to me, and realized I was a human.
“Please come in if you would like too, for I might be able to assist the both of you,” Zecora added before letting me walk into her home.
All of the incredible things and ornaments I saw were something I would see in a tribal village or something. Incense was being lightly singed, as it filled the air with its delicate and pleasing aroma. Zecora was also however looking like she was working on quite an interesting brewery of sorts, as far as potions were concerned.
“Zecora, well um, I am so sorry to just go on ahead and simply ask you if you had anything for something on such short notice. After all you did invite the both of us in…by the way this is a good friend of mine, his name is Matthew,” said Roseluck happily.
“Hello Zecora, it’s nice to meet you, have you met any other humans yourself?”
“I have indeed yes, but most of the time I prefer it much less,” Zecora replied, implying she seemed to be bothered by some humans a while ago or something.
“Oh, I’m sorry to hear that, did anything bad happen?” I ask her.
“They did not bother me, nor my tree, but at one time they would not leave me be,” she replied once more, rhyming like a pro as she seemed to pull of so naturally.
“Well Miss Zecora, um…I was wondering if you had anything or any concoctions of any kind for a human perhaps? Liiiike…maybe temporary transformation or something?” Roseluck wondered.
“Hmm, yes of course, I might have what you need. However I need a pony for this to bleed.”
With Zecora saying this to her, Rose seemed a bit frightened and worried about what she said, but started to relax, only to realize she just needed a prick from her.
Zecora arrived out from her storage with the ingredients to make some strange miracle happen. She also pulled out a little tiny needle, and made her way over to Roseluck, leading her over her brewing cauldron.
“Stand strong for me, for this might sting. After these few drops however, good it shall bring.”
“How do you rhyme so well with what you say everytime? Sorry…I just had to ask that,” I blurted out by accident, causing Zecora to look at me just before she got what she needed.
“Sorry…go on with whatever it was you were doing with her.” I then looked over to Roseluck, seeing a look of pain on her face.
“Roseluck are you okay? Do you want her to stop?”
“No…no I want this to happen,” she replied, before finally it was finished. Zecora had managed to get the few drops of pony blood she needed, before letting it go into the cauldron, and adding a few more ingredients.
“Mixing these ingredients takes a time or two, so once it is finished I shall call on both of you,” Said Zecora.
A few minutes since she had said that we needed to give her space and time to focus on making whatever it was she had plans for. Rose and me simply lied around within her living room, talking and making games about all the neat stuff she had around her hut as we waited. One game we did was out of all the silly designs and masks we saw, we would try and copy the expressions they had, which made us almost on the verge of tearing up when it came to the last few faces.
I was so glad to be friends with a pony for a change in my life, it was utterly awesome to be honest, and hopefully my friends or family wouldn’t have any problem with it either.
Zecora asked for us to give her a few minutes, but from the looks of it she had never done a single brew or thing for humans. She made her way out from her alchemy room, and caught us both still cutting up and fooling around like the best buddies we were.
“Ahem, I will need to speak to you…the one who calls himself Matthew.”
Rose and me went silent after she said that, as I straightened myself up, making my way back to her alchemy room.
“Yes, is there something you need to take from me as well? By the way, how is the pony potion coming along, hm?”
Zecora merely gave a slight roll of her eyes, and went straight to the chase.
“The way of your kind being like ours, takes a whole lot more than mere minutes or hours. I cannot make it happen, for I have never done this. To a certain pony princess however, I know that research is bliss,” she replied.
“Oh…” I stared off to another direction feeling disappointed in the fact it couldn’t happen. However, she gave me directions back to Ponyville to a certain Alicorn princess who allegedly lived there, and not in a big castle like she would normally perhaps. After she explained everything to me, I made my way out of there, as I then gestured for Roseluck to follow me back out and through the Everfree Forest.
“So how did it go, huh? Did you get it? Did she make it?”
I could tell Roseluck would be thrilled to hear good news about it, but that good news would not come for now.
“No Rose, she wasn’t able to pull it off. She said that she had never made a certain type of thing like that, despite the alchemic pro she was I’m sure,” I replied.
“Well…at least we made funny faces of where she lived!” Rose laughed out loud.
“You can say that again!” I laughed along with her, as I then made a couple of quick funny expressions from the masks on our way out of there.
We made our way out of that “unnatural” forest, and on our way back into town. I explained to Rose that we needed to find an alicorn princess by the name of Twilight Sparkle that apparently lived in Ponyville.
“So you’re saying that Princess Twilight can help us with this?”
“Well it’s worth a shot, Zecora said she loved doing research on stuff, so this should definitely make her brain work extra hard this time. Zecora said she was into books and reading, and so forth a whole lot, so it seems promising to me,” I stated back to her, looking back down at the map that Zecora drew out for me to locate a giant tree in the middle of town… a tough place to find I guess for a human anyways, cause I sure as heck couldn’t find it immediately.