A Brony's Dream Come True

by FeatherFoot


Chapter 22

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Got it up! Here it is! Chapter 22! Annoying sentence fragments! They are so lovely!

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Jordan and Jake turned toward the direction of the laugh, but did not see anything except for a lone balloon. Everypony else turned to look as well. Pinkie Pie gasped.

"Maybe there's a party nearby!" Pinkie announced, before bolting toward the balloon, and it started drifting. Pinkie continued running, though the balloon traveled faster than she ran. Everypony, including Cloud Dasher, followed suit.

They reached a hedge maze in the outskirts of town. They looked up. Twilight gasped.

"Isn't that Fluttershy's cottage?" She said, pointing in the direction of the small cottage.

"Then...that must mean..." Jordan started. Jake finished it for him.

"The Everfree Forest? This maze leads in there?" Jake said, a bit nervous.

Just then, the maze closed behind all of them. Everypony turned around.

"Hold on!" Rainbow, stated, starting to fly, only to have her wings vanish. She began falling to the ground.

"Rainbow!" Jordan called out. His wings vanished as well, and he galloped as fast as he could, and caught Rainbow Dash before she hit the ground. They both looked behind to the other ponies.

One thing stood out. Twilight, Rarity, and Jake were missing their horns, and Cloud's wings vanished as well.

"Uhh, Jake?" Jordan started, as he set Rainbow down and trotted over to Jake. He put his hoof on Jake's forehead, and Jake felt him hot the skin all around where the horn would be. He put his own hoof to his head, and felt nothing there.

"Darn it!" Jake called out, as he faced Twilight and Rarity, seeing them hornless too. They both screamed when they saw each other.

"Okay everypony, calm down!" Jordan attempted to reassure the five panicking ponies in front of him. Rainbow Dash trotted up beside him.

"Everypony!" Rainbow shouted out, 20% louder than Jordan. They all stopped screaming and panicking, but were still scared.

"We will probably find out why we're here if we reach the end of the maze!" Rainbow told them. Jordan, Jake, and Cloud formed a separate group.

"Okay, what the hay is going on?" Cloud asked, a bit annoyed at what is going on.

"Discord, that's what's going on." Jordan responded. "Think. Pink clouds, it's raining chocolate milk right now, it is obviously his work."

"We don't know that for sure." Cloud stated. Jordan and Jake looked annoyed.

"Well when we get to the center, we will prove it." Jake stated flatly. With that, they broke away from their group and rejoined the others.

Deeper in the Everfree Forest...

a gold pegasus with a gold and red mane strolled through the maze that randomly popped up out of nowhere, looking for the exit. Though the situation was serious, he took it in stride.

"Wow this is a-maze-ing!" he said to himself. "Sure don't want to get lost in here!" He chuckled to himself, making his way down every path, when a flash appeared. He looked at his sides, and noticed his wings were gone.

"Well, looks like I won't be flying the coop anytime soon!" He said to himself, chuckling as he made his way through the maze.

Eventually, he came upon an opening in the maze. He spotted seven ponies just outside the forest.

"Hmm, who are they?"

Outside the Everfree...

Jordan started laying out a plan of attack.

"Okay, here is what we'll do. We will split into groups.

Twilight, you, Jake, and Rarity are a Unicorn group. Me, Cloud, and Rainbow are the Pegasus group, And Applejack, you and Pinkie are the Earth Pony group. Got it?" Jordan told them. Everypony nodded. "Good. Each group will take a different path. The reason for these groups is in case we are attacked in the forest. We don't want to be caught alone."

Everypony lined up. "Ready everypony? Let's-" Before he could finish, a voice came through from the forest.

"Hello?" the voice called out. Everypony turned around to see agold pony stroll out of the forest. He bore no cutie mark and had a smile on his face. He trotted out of the forest very nonchalantly, surprising everypony.

"What the-" Before Jordan could finish, Pinkie Pie burst in.

"Ooh! That must be a new pony! I've never seen him before!" She pulled a cannon out of nowhere, but before she could pull the trigger, the large space divided into three smaller spaces, making the unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies separated.

"Everypony, are you okay?"Twilight shouted. Everypony called out to Twilight reassuringly. "Okay, everypony meet up at the end of the maze!" With that, everypony was off. Except one thing...

Applejack was the only one in the third section. "What in the hay?" Applejack called out. "Pinkie Pie, where are ya?" She shouted as she ran into the forest entrance.

In the Everfree Forest...

Twilight, Rarity and Jake were the farthest in the maze. They reached a clearing, but did not see anything except the occasional squirrel. They saw three paths on the other side of the clearing.

"Jake, Rarity, should we split up here, or choose a path and take it?" Twilight asked the other two.

"It's too risky to have us all in one group if we choose the wrong path." Jake said. "If all of us split, the one that finds a good path can call out for the other two!" Rarity looked at him, but she understood what he meant.

"Twilight, maybe Jake has a point. If we split up, we are guranteed to find the right path." Rarity explained.

Twilight just put her hoof to her chin. "I suppose."

Jake trotted up to Twilight, and pulled her into a reassuring hug. "Twi' if you want to stay in a group, I can go with you." Jake told her, pecking her cheek. She blushed.

He backed up to his position. "Rarity, Me and Twilight will go down one path, and you go down another. Clear?" He told Rarity.

"As clear as a ruby on a sunny day darling." Rarity confirmed.

Twilight and Jake chose to take the left path while Rarity took the right. All three had the same thing in mind...

'How are the others doing...'

Meanwhile...

Jordan, Rainbow Dash, Cloud, and Briar all were moving along the maze at a good pace.

"Ok you two, listen." Jordan said, and the other two stopped. "I'm not so sure anymore. I mean, this is probably Discord."

"Jordan, don't be crazy. Discord was sealed in stone, remember?" Rainbow reassured him, but Jordan did not buy it.

"I'm just saying, what if the chaos of the frosting fight was enough to unseal him?" Jordan stated, becoming a bit nervous.

"Don't worry about it right now Jordan." Cloud chimed in.

"Yeah, we'll find out when we get to the end!" Briar entered the conversation.

As they continued to trot down the path, the chocolate milk rain started falling harder.

"Great." Jordan complained. Then they heard somepony drinking the chocolate rain. They looked at each other, puzzled, as none of them were the source. They looked behind them, and noticed something that shocked them.

Pinkie Pie had been following them.

"Well, this is a real pie in the face." Briar said, lifting their spirits a bit with the pun. Pinkie looked up.

"I love jokes! Tell another!" Pinkie pie asked, while the others just stared.

"Umm, okay. This just in, 100% chance of chocolate rain preceding a slight chance of tall bunnies!" Just as Briar said that, long legged bunnies scurried out of the bushes and crossed to the other side of the path. Pinkie laughed in hysterics. Everypony else's spirits: +1.

"You're awesome!" Pinkie Pie announced. Briar blushed.

"You're too kind." he stated, as they all continued on the path.

Oh horseapples, another transition...

Applejack made her way down the path, looking for Pinkie. She gave up after a while.

"Horseapples. Well, ah'll probably see her at the end." With that, she strolled deeper into the maze, comign among three paths. One had bits galore in it. Another had the entire Apple family. The third kept going deeper.

"She gazed down the path with bits. She saw every gleam of the shining coins beckoning her to collect them. She shook her head.

"No. Friends are more important than money." She told herself, then turned toward the path with her family. She looked closely, and saw right through the mirage. "Nice try, but that's not mah family." She took the path that kept going. She went deeper and deeper into the forest to attempt to find the exit.

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Added Briar (DaBeejees)!

Reviews are appreciated!

Also, what should I name the chapters? I've been wondering that since I started.

Eternity out!

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