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// The Arrival  
// Story: Derpy And Carrot Top: Friends Till The End 
// by Rtrotten 
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	One day a mare named Derpy was cooking muffins and just as she had put them into the warm oven when she kissed her youngest child and husband goodbye. The pegasus, noting that the sun was just rising, flew quickly to her mail store. The office was empty and dark when she got in. Derpy turned around again and looked at the sun through the glass windows of the store, she locked the boor behind her as she trotted to the counter.
She quickly made her way to the backroom where she turned on a light. In the back there were a few machines with bags underneath them. The bags were sitting on a conveyor belt that led to a wall that had many small boxes with names and addresses on a label. As soon as she fliped a switch the back of the store came to life, moving the bags putting more mail into the bags, and a machine at the end of the conveyor took mail out of the bags and placed them in their corect places. Derpy was still getting use to the technology that her husband , Doctor Whooves, had just installed to make life a bit easier.
Derpy walked into a closet and placed all of her things on a small bookshelf when heard a knock from the front of her store. Derpy haden't been expeccting anypony so early into the day. When she turned on the light to the front of the store she could see a unicorn standing outside in a ragged hood with a satchel that looked worn and old. She quickly trotted over to the front door and unlocked it. Derpy let out a nervous laugh "I wasn't expecting anypony so early considering I don't open until ten."As he reached into his dusty bag Derpy noticed that the bag had a symbol on the side that she had never seen. 
The symbol looked like a heart had straight lines instead of rounded edges, while throughout the heart there were three straight lines that split the heart into three sections white and a lighter and a darker shade of blue. As Derpy looked at the bag she noticed something strange, though the bag was raggedy the symbol on it seemed new. The unicorn pulled a dusty old map out of the raggedy bag and placed it on the counter. Derpy with a smile asked where it was to be delivered. The unicorn laughed and said with a scruffy voice "Sorry for the confusion but I was sent to deliver this to you." He continued on with saying "I was told you must have a friend or a companion" and to meet at the amulet. When the unicorn left, Derpy picked up the old map and unrolled it.
On the map was all of Equestria but the only sign on the map was in the Everfree forest where an amulet that looked like an alicorn rested. Derpy figured that is where they should meet. She packed a bag for the small trip into the  forest: Muffins, water, first aid and the map. The only thing missing was a friend. She flew out of her store as fast as she could when she hit some pony. The hit knocked both of them over. Derpy looked up with a hurt head and apologized. Carrot Top looked down and laughed. Derpy got up and realized that she had hit Carrot Top. Derpy told Carrot Top what the unicorn had told her and that she needed a friend to go along with her because she was one of the few friends she had.
Carrot top said that she wouldn't be able to. Derpy asked why Carrot Top could not go. She had to think for a minute but had to think of a lot of reasons why she couldn't go, one of them being  it's in the middle of the Everfree forest. After the walk to Carrot Top's house, Derpy had put enough begging into the same question that Carrot Top decided to go with her to meet the unicorn. They looked into the forest where they could see a perfect path that went in but if you stepped off into the forest it got darker and more over run with weeds and other plants, while on the path light shown in through the tops of the trees like rays of the sun. They went into this forest not knowing what they would find.
After walking for about and hour they felt something watching them in the woods. As they looked ahead they saw a stone building. They rushed ahead to find a clearing. There were old buildings filled with overgrown plants and flowers but the area felt of death and decay. As they wandered through the old forgotten buildings Derpy found a helmet that a soilder would wear.As she put it on, her mane flew out of the back of it. The helmet had designs all around and over. As they left this building they saw a door opening to a large hole in the ground. As they walked to these doors two stone ponies stood next to the building where an archway was broken. As Derpy took the lead she opened the two small doors as she heard Carrot top cry to run.
Derpy turned around to see Carrot Top running to her and skeletons of ponies that were moving behind her. Their bones were gray and thin and their helmets looked as old themselves, their eyes were hollow and black except a gleaming red dot that stood out of the darkness of their eyes. Derpy started flying inside when rocks started to collapse behind them, a rock fell from the ceiling above and struck Derpy's helmet sending her to the cave floor. Carrot Top jumped to push Derpy out of the way of the falling rocks, as they both landed into an opening of a dark cave. A skeleton had followed them into the cave and was smashed instantly by the falling rocks leaving just the head, all of a sudden Carrot Top heard Derpy cry "The walls are moving."