//------------------------------// // Ch2 // Story: Silver Hooves, The Silver Pony // by The Red Chronicler //------------------------------// I woke up the next morning feeling refreshed. Though, the feeling left when I heard Vinyl call out from outside, “Yo, Silver. You might want to check your living room.” Oh no, it better not be what I think it is. I thought as I raced downstairs. And sure enough, I found that my living room was a complete wreck. All of the furniture was thrown everywhere, and even some of my trinkets have been destroyed. “Oh no, not again!” I cried, picking up the mess that somepony made during the night. “Uh, don’t mind me asking, but, does that happen to you a lot?” Vinyl asked. “Oh yeah,” I said solemnly, “I've had this problem since I was living with my parents back at Manehatten. It didn’t matter where in the city we lived at, we would always find our home completely trashed after we had gone to bed, even when we locked the doors and windows.” “Wow, talk about bad luck.” “Yeah, well, I don’t intend on letting this get me down,” I said as I finished cleaning up the mess, “And I’m going to have to get that door replaced now.” “Yeah, well, I think I’m going to go now.” And with that Vinyl hastily fled to her house as I made my way out of mine. You know what, I think I’ll just go and explore the Everfree Forest. I thought to myself as I made my way over. “Beware of the shadow hounds,” I heard a voice whisper. I looked around to see if anypony’s there, but found the street to be empty. “Oh, great, now I’m hearing things.” I said to myself as I continued on. As I was heading on my way, a brown earth pony stopped by and said, “Excuse me, but are you the one involved with some shadow creatures?” “Uh, I don’t think so,” I replied, rather confused about the question that I was given. “Blast, well, tally ho,” he said, running off to meet with a grey pegasus. Okay, this place is certainly filled with strange ponies. Least this place is better than Manehatten, that’s for sure. I thought to myself. After an hour of walking I made it to the Everfree Forest. “Now let’s see what you've got,” I said to nopony. As I entered the forest, I could see all of the strange plants that lived here. As I went further into the forest, I encountered a pack of Timberwolves. “Now let’s see how much fun you can give me,” I said, getting ready to run as they spotted me. As soon as they started to go after me, I dashed among the trees, easily keeping my distance. The one thing about me that I love is that I don’t tire easily. In fact, I could keep going twice as long as any normal pony. I was having the time of my life until I was stopped by a pack of some sort of dark, smoky-looking wolves with yellow eyes. “Whoa, I don’t recall hearing about you guys living in the Everfree.” I said, stopping in my tracks. The Timberwolves caught up to me and both wolf parties started snarling at each other, although the Timberwolves were snarling at dark-looking ones while they snarled at me. Oh, this is not good. I thought to myself as I realized the mistake I made. Immediately, the two packs pounced on me. I was able to find an opening to escape while the two wolf packs started battling it out, though, one of the dark looking wolves started going after me, and to my surprise, it was able to keep up with me as two of the Timberwolves trailed behind. “Ugh… what are you. Some sort of wolf species that we haven’t found yet,” I yelled as I tried to get away from the wolf as best I could, only to find myself at a dead end. As I turned around, the dark smoky-looking wolf began to creep up on me. I thought I was a goner when something out of nowhere struck the wolf on the side, leaving a small cut, and immediately left. As soon as it happened, I watched as the wolf panic as it started to turn to silver. “Wha… What the hay just happened,” I said to myself, completely taken by surprise at what transpired. When more of them showed up, they saw that one of their own had been turned to silver and they turned tail and ran. “Okay, this definitely has gotten interesting. I’m so glad that I moved here.” And so I continued on my way. I didn't encounter anymore of those weird, dark wolf-looking things, but I still got to have some fun with the Timberwolves, which had gotten tired after trying to catch me for several hours. As the sun was starting to set, I made my way back home. As soon as I came to my house, Octavia showed up. “Hey, where have you been?” She asked, with a worried expression on her face. “Why do you want to know?” I inquired. “Vinyl had told me what happened at your house, and I was just wondering if you were okay.” She replied. “I just went out for a walk okay,” I lied, “Can’t a pony just go out for some fresh air.” “I guess, but why would anypony want to try and harm you?” “I don’t think they’re trying to harm me. I think they’re just trying to make my life miserable. I still don’t know who’s doing it, but I was hoping that it would stop as soon as I moved here.” “Well, I hope you have a good time tomorrow.” I've got to start barricading my house during the night. It’s becoming ridiculous having to replace all of my stuff every time this happens. I thought to myself. I looked in my mailbox to find a package from my parents as well as some other mail. “Well, time to see what I've got then head to bed,” I said as I closed my door.