//------------------------------// // Four: Recoveration. // Story: Rising Sun // by New Dawn //------------------------------// "I AM NOT CUDDLY!" Landon suddenly woke up screaming. "Dude, that was yesterday. Calm the hell down." I try to tell him. "I guess..." He whines. I curl back up in the sun and relax again. Celly and Lulu gave me an earful about how I should... *Ahem* "Be wary of others like them. You never know if they're dangerous or not." Yeah, I'm not a child Celly. "Hey... Uh... Mrs Amaterasu?" Sweetie Belle's voice echoed from outside. "Hello Sweetie. What bring you here?" I ask. "Well, Uh... It's just that... Rarity and mom are fighting again... over Rarity's future..." Sweetie says, walking in. Her fur is tear stained and is stained brown in some places with dirt. "Come here." I say, patting a place on the ground next to me. She sniffs and nods. She sits down in silence. "Don't worry, You can stay here for until they stop fighting..." I calmly tell the filly. She nods again and buries her head in my fur. I curl my head around her as best I can to replicate a hug. "T-thanks... Mrs Amaterasu..." She says. "No problem." I then fall silent to let Sweetie Belle cry her eyes out. "T-the other crusaders don't listen to me when I try to talk about this stuff to them... Well, They do.. But they don't understand..." Sweetie sniffs. She buries her head once more and we all fall silent, save for the occasional yellings of Landon in his sleep. "Sweetie Belle?!" I lift my head up and try to wake Sweetie Belle. "Huh? W-wha..." She yawns. "Sounds like somepony is looking for you." I tell her. "R-rarity?!" She cheers happily. She darts outside and I follow to the entrance. From the cover of the trees I can see Rarity and Sweetie Belle once again are reunited. Rarity says something to Sweetie and she nods. They begin to walk back to the town. "Landon!" I yell. "I'M NOT FLUFFY!" He shouts. "Dude, calm down. What time is it?" I ask. "Uhhh... Noon?" He mutters. "..... AAAAAAAAAAADVENTURE TIIIIMMEEEE!" I shout. He faceplants on the ground. "What?" I ask. "Mph." He mumbles. "Come on. Let's go on an adventure!" I shout. He groans but sits back up. "MERMAID SPRING, AWAAAYYY!" I shout, running to the pools of water. Everfree forest- 1,000 Years ago I turn to look at Konohana. She's idly floating along as we make our way through the forest. "So exactly... How are you floating without using your wings?" I ask. "I'm the spirit of the tree of Harmony. We're not too far so I came to see what the fuss was about." She says. "Huh." I mutter. Ventus casually hummed a small song as he sat upon my head. "Where exactly are we going?" I then ask. "To my home." Ventus replied, a small scrap of paper falling down from my head. We continue the walk in silence until we reach a very small shack. I mean SMALL. "Welp, This is it. I don't think you'll be able to fit however." Ventus jokes. "If only the magical hammer of smallness was here..." I mutter. "WWWWWEEEEEEEEE!" I shout as I fly out of the Mermaid Spring of a different shrine. "AAAAHHHHH!" Landon shouts as he gets a mouth full of dirt. "You need to work on your landings." I simply tell him. "Mph." He once again growls. The world once again stops as I draw a line from the pool of water and then onto him. The world then starts again and Landon ends up drenched. "I wanted to wash the dirt out." I lie. To be honest, It's fun abusing my power to have fun with Landon. "S-Sure y-you did..." He shivers. "Whatever." I say, walking out of the shrine. I took a quick glance at the statue. It was of Lulu. "Wait... this is... Hollow Shades..." I mutter. "And what does that mean?" Landon asks. I start to internally squee. "BAT PONIEESSS~!" I shout, running out into the main part. "Wait!" The area lacked a surprising amount of bat ponies. "This sucks." I mutter. Landon caught up, panting. "Wait... Up! Stubby legs!" He shout-pants. I stick my tongue out at him. He glares at me before we break into laughter. "Welp, Some adventure this turned out to be..." He mutters after recovering. "Let's just go back to jump into the mermaid springs over and over again." He adds, walking back. I sigh. "FIIIINEEEE!" I start to follow him back. "WEEEEEE~!" I shout, flying out. "GAAAH!" Landon shouts as well, tumbling head over heels. "You reaaally got to work on your landings." I mutter, face...pawing. "Whatever." he says, shaking dust off his fur. That's when I noticed it. The beautiful thing that was made from cardboard...THE GIANT BOX. "MINE!" I shout, leaping in it. I slowly poke my head out as Landon ran at me. "Nope!" I shout, nudging the flaps closed. "You can't stay in there forever!" He shouts. "WATCH ME!" I heard crickets chirp as I woke up. Then it hit me.... Who left this box? "Stupid.. Teleportation spell..." I slowly peak out of the box to meet the face of the purple Alicorn, Twilight Sparkle. We carefully stared into each others eyes until I started to lean in. She started to do the same. We got closer and closer until... "Ugh gross! Wolf slobber! HELP HELP! I NEED DISENFECTANT!!!" Twilight shouted, running off screaming like a little filly. "Ouch. That hurt." I mutter to myself. I climb out of the box and look around. I was in a... tree. TIME TO FOR THIS TREE TO GET REKT! ... Dear god, Never let me say that again.... Using the power slash brush skill, I managed to wreck her bookshelves. Before she came back I drew the veil of mist and ran out into the cold night air. "I feel so ALIVE!" I shout, running out into the streets. Skidding on the turn into the forest, I ran back into the cave where Landon was sound asleep. Panting, I flop on the floor and try to slow my heart rate. "I need to have more fun days like this..." I yawn.