//------------------------------// // "ah want to go home" // Story: Doc we need your help // by RavenFire2908 //------------------------------// Twilight sat in the car, her driver sat quietly in front of her. Twilight looked out the dark window. Rain tapping down on it, drop by drop. She sighed and asked for the tenth time to the driver. "is it long until we reach The Everfree?" "No, Miss Sparkle only about ten minutes. " He answered, The stallion driver was a dark blue Pegasus with a two coloured mane, green and red. His mane was short just under his ears. "Nice, Cosmo? can I ask you something?" She asked looking away from the window and meet Cosmo's eyes in the mirror. "of course" He answered with a nod. "Have you ever felt something for somepony you just meet, like it feels like it was meant to be?" Twilight asked playing with her tums and looking down at them. "Well, yes. I'm married with a son. I met his mom at the market, I bumped into her and we both fell, when I saw I had tripped her helped her up as fast as I could. I apologised and when I left I was so angry at myself. The thing is, when our hands touched we felt a spark. Next week I went back to the market and met her again, we began to talk. It ended with us sitting on a bench talking. We kept seeing each other and after eight months, I asked her to marry me, she said yes." Cosmo finished his story dreamily as the good memories ran by him, he smiled and looked at a photo by the GPS. "How nice. So you just meet her twice and it ended up with you two dating and now you're married." Twilight said happily with a giggle at his behavior "yup" The car stopped by a huge tree in the forest. The dark Everfree forest. Twilight got out of the car and told Cosmo to wait, it wouldn't take long. Twilight walked to the front door and knocked. Not even a minute later the person who lived there came out. "Hello dear Twilight, what brings you to my home?" Zecora asked waving her hand to signal for Twilight to enter "Thanks Zecora, I am here because I need help... or my patient needs help, we have come to the theory that a demon have taken control of her." Twilight said sitting down on a chair across the table from Zecora. "Then you made the right choice to come here, to me, but is this all you really need? " Zecora asked in her strange rhyme’s. "Somethingis on your mind, is it not?" "Well yes, but it isn't important." Twilight said scratching her neck. "No, No, Twilight dear. I will not go anywhere before your mind is clear." The zebra said with a smile. "Relax, have some tea and let your mind go." Twilight took the cup and drank down half of it, after setting it back down on the table. Zecora took the cup and looked at it. Twilight raised an eyebrow and looked at the zebra strangely. "you have many thoughts in you head, but the one that is biggest in this place." She narrowed her eyes, like trying to read something small in a book "You have gotten feelings for a pony, a pony not far away from you." Twilight's jaw dropped. "How did you-!?" She gasped. Zecora kept looking at the cup. "The feelings of love for a mare." She smiled at Twilight reaction. "The mare in question, a patient scared of life and death. A mare with the mind of another. A mare of Apple blood, with the name of Applejack..." Zecora finished placing the cup on the table. Twilight grabbed the cup and looked at it. "How did you know all that!? Just from the cup!?" "Yes, indeed. Now that your mind is clear, tell me more about your feeling for this mare." "Well, I meet her some months ago. I just feel light and safe around her, I feel nervous and I can't help but smile at the sight of her." Twilight admitted. "but what if she doesn’t like me?! What if she laughs at me?! What if she becomes angry at me!?" The alicorn said, rambling a off questions until Zecora silenced her. "hmm... Well, Love indeed is confusing, but the only way to find the truth is to tell the truth." Zecora rose from her seat and began to walk around the room, putting different items in a bag. Some dust, candles, matches, potions and a big book. "Now let's go save this friend of yours, before she is lost to this demonic horror.” Applejack sat in her room staring at the wall. Why don't you break out, you don't belong here. You belong with your parents in the second life. You should just leave, break free from this prison, join me in the underworld. Applejack didn't say anything, she didn't want to speak with that thing, that demon. A loud beep was heard from behind her, Applejack turned her head to see a white mare with pink hair tied in a bun. "Hallo, I am Redheart, nurse Redheart. I'm here to give you your medicine for the day." She said, walking closer to the mare who just turned her back to the white earth pony. "Ah don't need them, ah want to go home...." She whispered as the demon spoke to her. Yes, you should go home. She is your key out you know. Remember those fighting skills I taught you. Just wrap your foreleg hard around her neck and tell them that you will break it if they walk closer. The voice told her. Applejack closed her eyes, fighting back the urge to do it. "Home" She whispered as her voice turned into a dark demon voice, like two voices talking almost at the same time. "Did you say something?" Redheart asked walking closer, she placed her hand on Applejack's shoulder. Just as she touched her, Applejack spun around pinning Redheart to the ground. "Ah want to go home!" The dark voice said. Her eyes were black with the little green dot in the middle. Her teeth had sharpened and were dripping blood as they grew out of her mouth. The hands that held Redheart down grew sharp claws. Redheart screamed in terror but was cut short when something wrapped around her mouth. She dared to look and saw Applejack's hair moving around her face, her hair was still blond just with black tips that moved as if in water. "your mah key out of this prison" Applejack said, she lifted Redheart up from the floor and guided her out. Applejack placed her arm around Redheart's neck. As guards tried to stop her they were stopped when Redheart waved at them not to come any closer, fearful tears running down her face. The guards kept an eye on them as they made their way down the hallway. "please, why are you doing this?" Redheart asked trying to breath with little success, as she used her hands trying to get Applejack's arm away from her neck. "ah want to go home, ah want to see mah family" She answered, not showing any emotions. "Applejack!?" Came a voice from their side, Applejack's eyes turned to see who dared to interrupt her. Rarity was the one that had screamed, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie stood in a group shocked with the horror of the image in front of them. "What are you doing?" Rainbow Dash asked as she caught Fluttershy before she hit the ground. Poor Fluttershy had passed out from the nightmare, or at least she hoped it was a nightmare. "ah'm going home" Applejack answered as she moved forward toward her goal. Applejack and Redheart walked down to when they came to the front door, Applejack didn't let go she pushed forward. The door opened and two ponies came inside. One purple alicorn and one zebra. "Applejack!?" Twilight gasped when she saw the demon squeeze Redhaert’s neck tighter in a threatening gesture. "NO! ah am not your control anymore! ya'll will not stop me!" The demon voice screamed. "ah want to go home!" Zecora dug around in her bag when she pushed open a small bag of white powder, she blew the powder toward Applejack. When the powder touched Applejack's body, she screamed in pain. The pain caused her to lose her grip on Redheart and recoil. "ahhh!!!" Seconds later Zecora threw another light blue powder at her, it made Applejack take a few steps back before falling to the ground unconcious. "Thank you" Redheart said, trying to get her breath back. "your welcome.” Twilight looked at the zebra next to her, ”Zecora? what was that stuff you threw at her?" "The first thing I threw was salt, the second thing I threw was sleep powder, those combined will keep the demon at bay inside her." Zecora said her usual rhymes. "We can get the demon out later, she will need strength." With that Twilight used her magic and lifted Applejack back to her room. Zecora followed, pulling things out of her bag and preparing them.