//------------------------------// // The Mansion // Story: Treasure Planet // by SirPenninghoof //------------------------------// They approached a large mansion standing out against a tall mountain behind it; the mansion was made of red bricks, and had a nice entryway, which was of course a one mile stone path in the woods leading to such a place, the door was made of a dark wood, with an outline of stone around it. Applejack calmed the creature reined to the wagon; she settled down and tramped off into the wood, making growling and howling noises. The inside of the building was beautiful, stone pillars with vases filled the rooms, bright red walls, towering bookshelves, paintings of ponies in togas holding cornicopias full of fruits; twilight was the first to do anything besides awe in amazement, she hit the books hard, cramming all the books she could fit in her hooves. They settled on the oak benches in the dining area, beautiful artistic stone floors, beautiful vases and paintings, stoves and ovens and a steel refrigerator. Twilight was reading books, spike and Fluttershy talking about animals; Applejack and Lyra discussing their next move, rainbow dash and pinkie pie were outside wrestling. “So, our inn was destroyed, and raided by pirates” said Lyra, making a strategy in her head as she talked. “I guess so, what do we do now?” asked applejack, “I know!” said spike, trying to butt in, “We should retake the benbow inn…” said fluttershy, interrupting spike, “No, we are outgunned…” Lyra implied, “I know!” said spike practically yelling in their faces, “What?” fluttershy, Lyra, applejack, and twilight said looking up from her book? “We should go on an adventure, to find treasure planet.” He said, “We don’t even know if it exists…” says Lyra, “But the map-“ “But the map, the map could be a fake…” she replied, “It’s not like we have anything to lose…” said applejack, murmuring… “Applejack does have a point” twilight said, butting in their argument, “Well… Even so, if we could ‘purchase’ a ship, what if we find nothing, what if it was all a big giant fake, and we traveled all that way for nothing?” Lyra said, “Then we can return saying that treasure planet doesn’t exist, and then we could start up a new benbow inn.” Twilight said straightforwardly, Twilight left the table and went outside to think, rainbow and pinkie pie were still at it, pinkie pie had rainbow dash in a headlock when she opened the door. Rainbow dash quickly rolled over and was on top of pinkie pie, giving her a few good punches. Twilight walked past them, and started down the stone path which lead to the roads, which lead to the city, and which lead to the ship-station, and the ship-station is where you took a ship to the moon, or otherwise known as montressor space port. Twilights head was buried in a book about fantasy, a knight was out to save a lady from a warlock; the warlock had stolen the princess from the castle to cause war between the castle of the princess, and the castle of which the prince held from. She was at the part where the knight was going to enter the layer of the warlock when she noticed she had hit the roads, ignoring the fact she kept walking; the road she was following would soon take her to the city. Applejack stood up from the table and looked down at them, “I guess it’s settled?” “I guess it is, this is our decision?” said Lyra, “Yes” came from fluttershy, spike, and applejack all sitting at the table, “So that settles it” lyra stated, “tomorrow we shall set out on a ship to montressor space port, from there we shall find a good sized ship, from there we calculate and follow the map until we reach our destination?” she said, “Who says we can’t make a few detours and visit other planets and universal wonders while we are on our way?” said spike, “Yes, it is not like we are on a time schedule or anything, as long as the ship is back in one piece, and so are we, everything will be fine, I hope.” Applejack said with a mouthful of apple pie, That was when twilight entered the room; she heard the discussion and was filled with excitement. They were going to go on the adventure she thought. Twilight walked in and settled down, they told her the news and she had to act like she had just heard the news. Applejack motioned the ponies to follow her upstairs; the stairs were spiral and made of stone with metal handlebars on the side to prevent falling. Upstairs there was a nice carpet sat on a dark wood floor, the walls were a dark green and had the same furniture as downstairs but in a lighter color. Applejack showed them to their rooms, they walked down a hallway until they reached a large room with several bunk beds, dressers, and hologram televisions. Spike raced to the first bunk and called the top, fluttershy called the bunk under his; lyra had the top of the next bunk and twilight the bottom, pinkie pie and rainbow dash follow them to the room and got the next bunk for themselves. Applejack left the room for a moment, when she returned a colt wearing a tuxedo followed her in carrying metal plates with lids on top, behind him was a pony pushing a glass table into the room; after the table got in, the colt set the plates down and lift the lids off. Their faces were lit, dinner! They were starved to see the delicious meal prepared for them. Steaming hot chowder, broccoli and cheese soups, fried onions set in a thick brown gravy, roasted chestnuts, glasses of fresh cold milk, bagels with sides of butter, cottage cheese, pies, salads, dressings, salt and pepper, and in the middle was a large watermelon filled with a variety of fruits. They dug in, the colt and pony taking a plate and going off into another room. Their mouths were stuffed full of the delicious meal which they were graciously given, applejack dug into the pies which she had not seen; she grabbed the apple pie and cut her two pieces, they were quickly gobbled down with her teeth and a glass of milk. Spike was sad there was no meat, but he dug his choppers into a thick fried onion covered in delicious gravy, he smiled in pleasure of the magnificent taste. Twilight and rainbow dash had plates full of fruits and were clearing them down quickly, fluttershy had a nice sized salad with ranch dressing, which she was eating quiet slowly, savoring each bite. After dinner was finished, the colt returned and cleaned up the mess, and the pony returned and took the table back into the other room. They settled into their bunk beds and applejack turned the light off and closed the door, they had a big day tomorrow.