The team set into the dimly lit forest. They knew full well what was inside, thanks to Applejack & Applebloom. They didn’t have any collapsible chairs, special flutes, or flame-retardant boots, but what they did have was numbers and the hope that Pinkie Pie was inside.
Pinkie walked even quicker. The growls & snarls were getting progressively louder, and more frequent. After about a minute of nervous trotting, she looked behind her once more. This time, there was a three-headed beast not far away, shrouded in mist. Pinkie broke out into a full-out sprint, to try and run away from whatever was behind her. Too bad there was another one right in front of her.
Two? She hadn’t heard the one in front of her. She ran to her right, thinking she had outwitted the creatures. She hadn’t. There was a third. All three of them surrounded Pinkie. She could see each of them clearly now; they were… timberwolves?! Pinkie wondered what had made the hissing behind her. If it wasn’t the timberwolves, then what? Pinkie screamed for help. Maybe everypony at the rock farm could still hear her.
Cheese heard a scream from deeper in the woods. “Pinkie!”, he yelled. He ran off in the direction of the scream, startling the rest of the crew even more than they had been by the scream. They blindly chased after Cheese, without knowing what was ahead. One thing was for sure, though; Pinkie was in trouble.
Cheese stumbled into a clearing, with three timberwolves. They snarled at him, and one lunged at him. Cheese quickly dove out of the way, and landed on the ground with a hard thud. Two of the timberwolves started circling him. He climbed to his hooves, and prepared himself for the timberwolves. Before they could attack Cheese, a strange figure emerged from the trees. It had three heads; snake, mountain goat, and tiger.
“Well, look what we’ve caught today.”, said the tiger.
“Yeah. Normally we only get squirrels”, the goat replied.
“Now, we have two poniessssssssssss…..”, hissed the snake.
The timberwolves ran away, whimpering. Anything that’s scaring away timberwolves, Cheese thought, must be even scarier than them.
Two ponies?, Pinkie asked herself. There weren’t two ponies. Right? She looked around. She saw Cheese, standing strong against the three-headed beast.
“Cheese?”, she said, out loud.
Cheese saw a pink pony a few yards away, with straight hair. “Pinkie!”, he replied. Before he could say anything else, the chimera swatted him against a tree like he was a parasprite. He fell, defeated. The chimera strafed around his limp body, waiting for him to get up. After a few long seconds, he did, and was swatted against the tree again, with a grunt.
Twilight ran through the clearing, along with everypony else in the search team.
“That’s it!!”, Applejack said. “That’s the chimera, from before!’
“Let’s get it!”, yelled Rainbow. She immediately flew fast towards the chimera, and kicked the goat straight in the face, leaving the chimera stumbling backwards. Applejack ran towards the tiger head, turned around, and bucked it in the jaw, thrusting the whole being further back. Finally, Twilight prepared a magic blast and threw it at the beast, pushing it even farther back, so far that the chimera stumbled off a cliff.
Pinkie was too bewildered and surprised to make sense of what had just happened. Cheese was lying on the ground in pain, and Pinkie saw this. She trotted to him slowly, and knelt by his side, as the rest of the ponies stood aside.
Two days since the chimera attack, Cheese Sandwich and Pinkie Pie threw their second tandem party. It took place in the entire town of Ponyville, with Sugarcube Corner taking control of food. Everypony was having a great time, but off on the sidelines, Pinkie & Cheese were having a conversation away from all the commotion.
“I’m sorry I left, Cheese.”, Pinkie said. “I should’ve waited for you to come.”
“It’s all fine now, isn’t it? We’ll be fine, and so will everypony else.”
“Okey-dokey-lokey, then! Let’s go enjoy the PARTY!!”
“Before we go, there’s something I need to tell you.”
Pinkie was startled. “What is it?”
“Pinkie……”, Cheese said, nervously. He waited a few moments before popping the question.
“Will you marry me?”