A young boy gets himself trapped along with his Grandma into a world where mythical creatures and magic exists. What adventures is he going to find and what relation does Grandma have with this world?
Montgomery Hopefield, a young high schooler boy and the son of the multi-millionaire Hopfield family, feels like the black sheep of the family as it seems he is the only one who despised the social life of a billionaire choosing often for a more casual activities. One day on a family trip wonders one night into a forest, gets lost and is ultimately attacked down by a strange wolf made out of wood with yellow aris and red pupils.
Once he lost it, Monty discovered a cave where that strange creature seems to had come from. Monty having his doubts is ultimately drag inside by his eccentric Grandma which seems to know more about that strange creature and the strange fantasy world they find at the end of the cave that she let out.
The sight of houses, buildings, and coffee shops on every corner was quickly replaced with trees, trees, and even more trees as we travel all the way from the comfortable couch in my house to the wild, uncivilized and definitely without a coffee shop forest. It was a family trip as my parents like to call it, I vote more for the name prison but I guess that's only my opinion and since my opinion isn't worth much in this family I am stuck with them.
"Monty….MONTY!" I heard my mother finally screaming in frustration due to my lets pretend I don't hear her for a while game. I slowly turn my head to see her with a boring expression in my face. "Monty, are you even listening dear? Can you please clean your little sister up? She could be drawn with her own barf for goodness sake," she said from the passenger seat of the van.
I look at my three-year-old sister bond to her custom-made baby car seat mom order online, She was restrained as if she was in one of those mental institutes for crazy people but for some odd reason, it seems that she didn't care. "Calm down Mom, she is ok. Is just a little spit of milk," I said cleaning her cheek with my shirt and making funny faces earning a cute laughter from her.
"But not with your shirt sweetie, we have to look nice for your new sister-in-law. We need to have a good first impression. Or did you forget about her?"
"How can I forget about that?" I said mentally roll my eyes. Seriously, that wasn't a rhetorical question, how can I forget about it? My mom and dad just can't stop talking about my oldest brother Jimmy getting marry with a woman of a prestigious family, owners of a chain of a 5-star hotel all over the world or something like that, I really don't care enough to remember.
"Oh, by the way, We are making him a surprise party too for graduating and obtaining his doctorate in medicine. We even invited all of his friends, So try to be the best you can before the party would you, son?" My dad said adjusting the rear-view mirror of the van to look at me in a serious manner.
"What? Jimmy is getting a party? Why hasn't anyone told me before? And why does he have a party? No one throws me one when I pass to 8th grade?" I complain while I become aware that we have already arrived at our destiny, a cabin in the middle of the forest where we used to go every summer and that I loved going when I was a child. Emphasis in child.
"Ush, Ush, Samantha. there-there," my mom runs to comfort my sister, the sudden slam of the car door I close scare her and make her cry. She released all the harness from the costume made baby seat and holds her close as she looks at me with an angry expression. "You mean barely passing, right?. You almost fail the semester. Seriously Monty, Jimmy pass with straights A's in his high schools. Sure you can do better than that in... yours." She said dismissively.
I roll my eyes and sigh deeply. "Yeah sure mom, sorry for being the shame of the family," I said half joking while grabbing my old and trustworthy blue backpack out from the back of the car. I have to do it by myself since there wasn't anybody to do it for me. Dad has given all our servants a vacation for the week.
"Augh, Monty don't be so melodramatic. And I am going to tell you this before you overreact. Grandma called and she said that she will be delighted to come to the party too."
I let go if all the stuff I was carrying at hearing that. I quickly turned to see my mother on the face. "Grandma is... coming?"
The rest of the day pass as I expected. The party was as boring as any other party my parents organize. Full of fancy stuff with a fancy food, fancy music and all. Jimmy and all of his friends were behaving as expected for students from the New Hampshire Real Academy, stuck-up people who love the sound of there own voices. Jimmy's fiancee wasn't that different either.
After a while, when the dinner was over and the sun was getting down, Jimmy's friends call a limousine to go to the real party as they called it. Jimmy will join them tomorrow, Of course, all behind my parent's knowledge. For them, Jim is an angel. If only they know the things he has told me.
"Well is getting late. Why don't we prepare everything for some smores and sing songs around a campfire like we used to?" my dad asked just after Jimmy's friends where gone.
"Oh, good idea Albert. Jimmy, why don't you come with me to grab some firewood in the forest, hum? What do you say? That is if you think you can keep up with me. " My grandma chuckles softly with her trembling voice graving one of my shoulders with her hand. Since she arrived she has tried to make a conversation with me. I, being the stubbornness teen as I am, try my best to pretend not to hear her walking away from her.
I like Grandma, I really do. And maybe that's the problem. But if there is something I hate about her more than anything is that awful habit of hers at referring to me.
"Grand he is not Jimmy, I'm Jimmy, did you take your pills?" my brother asked entering the room with my soon-to-be-sister. She was a tall Caucasian young lady with long red hair. I would salute her before if it weren't for the fact of her to snotty attitude. My brother sure knows how to pick them. "And is better if I go instead, is getting late and soon it will get dark."
"Oh, darling, you are a sweetheart," she said pinching my brother's chicks. "But I prefer going with little Jimmy over here if you don't mind. Don't worry, I will protect him if something happens out there." Grandma said grabbing from her big purse a bottle with big, yellow and green pills swallowing one them. "Thanks for remaining me about my medicine"
"I need no protection. I am already all grown up thank you very much. And who is saying I want to go? " I said while pulling my shoulder away from Grand's hands as well as giving her a quick mad glare. My grandma looks back at me with eyes that I really couldn't read. I never know what is in her mind sometimes so I don't know if she was mad, confuse or sad, I can never tell with her.
"C'mon Monty, you know Grands. She always does whatever she wants. You must have gotten used to it by now," my brother said back while putting a hand in my head petting it. "We all know how she is," he finished saying with a melancholic tone in his voice.
Grand used to travel a lot in her younger days thanks to her work, or I been told. Now that she is retired, she still travels a lot but without we really know why or even where most of the times. We know she travels around the world only because of the few times she sends postcards of the different places she goes and the quick visits she gives from time to time. From Egypt to Australia and from South America to the North pole. She always goes traveling somewhere without even saying a goodbye. one day she is eating dinner with us the other she is gone for a year.
"C'mon everyone, is getting dark! Why are you taking so long to come over here?! Monty, could you please go already for some dry wood? It's getting cold out here!" mom screams from the backyard where we usually make the campfire.
"Monty, obey your mother," dad shouted too.
"Ugh fine, I am on my way!" I scream back while I go to get my backpack and coat. "But I'm going alone," I said while looking at Grandma while taking my phone and earphones out of my backpack and put them on while I walk towards the door and went outside and into the woods.
The sun has just hidden under the western horizon. The animals in the forest started to get ready to sleep only for the nocturnal creatures to start hunting for their food. The first star of the night was already up in the dark sky. I heard that if you are the first one to see the first star of the night, your most wanted wish you had in your mind at that exact moment will be granted at the start of the next day. I really hope it isn't true. I can't wait until morning to get my most wanted wish granted.
"Where the fuck am I?!" I shouted out loud to no one in particular hoping for someone to answer. I was collecting dry pieces of wood for the fire but I guess that between the complaints about my life and my music I get distracted and swerve off the path.
"Great, I have no signal in here either, damn Verizon. GPS isn't working too." I walked looking at my phone trying to get it to work. Since I have memory, I always use this forest as my playground, I know it like the palm of my hand but…
"Hmm?... HAAAAAAA!" I scream well falling down a small hill that was hidden between some bushes and other wildlife and helped by the sudden disappearing of the moonlight. The sudden fall made me lose the firewood I was caring as well as the phone I was using as a lantern.
"Ugh, dammit!" I shouted examining my right leg that was bleeding out. I also have some bruise and cuts all over the rest of my body but nothing too serious. "Luckily I'm prepared for this. I have my first aid kit in my backpack so I can... wait? where is my phone?" I tried to look around and using my hands to know my surroundings as everything went black when a cloud blocked the moon's light all of the sudden.
As I was searching for it I noticed something. Apparently, I didn't fall from a hill but from a hole in the ground. Deep enough to hide a tree and It was full of vegetation and vines covering the sides. "That's why I didn't see it." I thought to myself blaming the vegetation more than me.
Expecting carefully my surroundings, I see the light of my phone had stuck between some branches and vines on the ground all the way on the other extreme of the hole. "How the heck did it goes all the way there?"
I walk towards it standing on my knees trying and raising an arm to grab the phone but I move back when I felt a sharp object piercing one of my fingers. "Ouch! what a..." I said while liking the cut in my finger.
I suddenly stop all my movements when I notice the low sound of breathing from something near me." Oh, please let that be a squirrel" I prayed.
My blood gets cold once the cloud that was blocking the moon moved away and subsequently allowing me to notice the sharp, claws-like branches that were holding my phone dragging it into the darkness. A big dog silhouette with a pair of yellow glowing eyes behind the vines caught my attention.
I took slow steps back trying to run the other way but the only thing I accomplish was cornering myself into the limits of the hole. The walls were too slippy to have a good grasp on it and the vines break easily with my weight if I try to use them to climb. I was between the rock and a hard place.
"Oooooowhoo!"
I heard the howling of the beast before taking steps towards me. It is then that I finally could see the creature on its full glory. The wolf had no fur or even skin whatsoever being more akin to that of wood instead. Its sharp and big fangs told me that it wasn't a friendly creature of the forest and those eyes, those were some frightening, but somewhat familiar, yellow glowing eyes.
The strange but intimidating wolf was reaching out to me as some kind of brownish resin oozed from its mouth. I was paralyzed not only because of the bruise on my knee but out of pure fear. When I was able to meet him eye to eye, I couldn't help it, just as when I thought he was going to open its mouth the eat my face off I leat out a scream probably a bit too high for a human male.
But regardless of that, it seems that the scream took the wolf by surprise because when I dared to open my eyes again I saw the wolf had already moved back banishing between the darkness behind the vines but not before noticing a small grim of the wooden wolf and the sound of a subtle laugh echoing inside.
Di-did that wolf just... laughed at me? I thought. Shaking my head I try to push the strange thought of a smiling wolf out of my mind. "I have to get out of here and quick," I said as I took my backpack from the ground ready to try to climb up once more. Before leaving though, an unsettling feeling passed through my head. You need a quick pick from the tunnel, You need to see what is in there. You know you want to.
"No, I-I can't. What if the wolf comes back?" I said trying to convince myself but the more I think about it, the more I wanted it to take a look. Something in my guts is screaming at me to do it.
With my curiosity winning over my sense of self-preservation I moved the vines blocking the tunnel and took a pick into the dark cave behind them. It was too dark to be able to see anything.
"Here, dear, you can use this,"
"No thanks, I have a flashlight In my..." I said trying to reach for the backpack in my back as a hand retires a lighted torch away of my face.
"Let's go then. Let's see where this tunnel leads to. You wouldn't let an old woman go alone, would you?" My grandma said as she took a step forward into the tunnel with the torch.
"GRANDMA! Where? What? How did you…?" I stuttered in surprise at her that was already relative far into the tunnel as the sound of her walking stick echoes all around. "W-wait, Wait for me!"
As I enter the tunnel, I grab my phone that was dragged before by that thing only to find out it was broken. The screen has a small scratch and when I turn it on, the screen was glitching out showing random times and dates as the image pop in and out. All while making a hissing sound. "Oh no, this is my third phone this year, mom is going to kill me."
Putting the phone into my backpack, I saw my grandma with the torch in hand not so far inside the cave. "How do you find me?" I asked finally reaching up to her. For an old lady, she walks way too fast.
"I hear a little girl screaming while I was looking for you so a went to check it out. How about you? Did you also hear the little girl?" She replied looking at me while raising an eyebrow.
"Huu?... Oh! Yea right I-I hear the girl too hehe" I lied scratching the back of my head while trying to avoid eye contact with a nervous laughter. "I hear the scream and went to check it out too. But what are you doing in the middle of the forest? in the middle of the night for that matter?"
"Well, isn't that obvious Jimmy? I was looking for you. We get worried when you didn't come back. After a few hours, I come looking for you."
"Oh! And where did you get the torch?"
"But from my purse of course," Grandma said hitting with her walking stick the big old lady purse around her shoulder "I never get out with some torch fuel and a lighter in hand. What I have always told you?"
"That you should always be prepared for anything," I say rolling my eyes in annoyance. Telling the truth, she is the reason I have my backpack in the first place, but to be prepared with the materials needed for a torch. Grandma is hardcore.
"Exactly Jimmy, I had thought you well"
"Grandma, for the last time I am not Jim~"
"Shhhh, Jimmy? Did you hear that?" Grandma asked interrupting me. I stay quiet while trying to listen, I was able to hear the sound of drops of water falling. And not only that, I smell humidity in the air, the smell of dirt recently getting wet.
"Is it... raining? But the only cloud in the sky I saw before going in was a small one," I said looking back where we came from finally noticing something strange with the tunnel. For some strange reason, I couldn't see the moonlight shining behind us. Even though the entrance was cover in veins, I was still able to see the pale light of the night through it but now I just see pitch black.
"I think it comes from the other side of the tunnel, C'mon Jimmy," Grandma motion with the torch increasing the pace of her walking.
"Wait, Grandma. I think we should go back. There is something strange in here and I don't like it." I shouted in vain as my Grandma walked out of the end of the tunnel.
The other side of the tunnel was cover in vines like on the other side. But where the other side was inside a hole, this was above ground. And, as we thought, it was raining outside. We were still in the forest, I can still see the trees but something was odd about it. It didn't feel the same.
"Grands, I don't like it in here we better go back. I satisfy my curiosity already and there isn't any girl in here. Let's just go home, should we?" I said eager to get back into the tunnel.
"Jimmy! Where is your sense of adventure? Let's explore a little bit more. Who knows? We may find something interesting." The old lady smiled as she walks into the forest,
"Something interesting? What can we even find in a forest that will be even remotely in-ter-est-ing?" I half asked at seeing what was in front of me. Somehow we have walked in the top of a mountain. From up there, we were able to see an old castle a few kilometers away from where we were standing which was strange since I didn't recall ever hearing about a castle being around this place.
"Wait, Why is there a cast~ Wait? why are we on the top of a mountain?! How in heavens do we get here? We were at ground level when we enter the tunnel and we walk in a straight line. Why the fuck is there a castle here and why didn't I ever see it before?" Freaking out, I watch desperately at my surroundings trying to find an explanation to all of this.
"Jimmy, watch your language, also I think there are bigger problems to be concerned with."
"What could be more important than this," I said moving both hands and pointing at the castle in emphasis. There is when I notice, the feeling of something watching us from the shadow and the sound of branches breaking.
The howling combined with the sound of thunder in the sky making my legs to shake as I sink down to the ground. The approaching of shadowing figures coming out of the forest makes my blood ice cold once again as I recognize those shadowy figures. "Of course there are more. Wolfs always hunts in packs."
"Oh, but these aren't ordinary wolfs, deer," Grandma said with her unchanged trembling voice looking everywhere at her surroundings with her torch still listen on her hand.
I didn't think twice of what my grandma means by that. Just as before, wooden canine creatures stood by the dozen or even more around us. If I doubt before that they weren't a wood-like a creatures, now I could make sure they were.
"So, I didn't dream them, what the fuck is going on?" I didn't have time for an answer however as one of those wolfs jumped right at us.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" I scream with the full strength of my lungs as the feeling of free falling fill my body. People said that when you are about to die, your life passes through your eyes in seconds. I never believe that until now, I could see everything, the times I pass with my grandma training, my old school and how boring it was. my newest school and the bullying. The time I meet my friends, the time I fight with them, the times I laugh with them.
Montgomeri behave yourself, why can you be more like your older brother?
Monty, someday you are going to inherit the family company, start acting like a Hopefield just like Jimmy.
Why is this that the only thing that comes to my mind when thinking about my parents. Disappointment.
"HAAAA! phoo!... Ough" The sudden stop from my fall as well as the filling of air escaping out of my lungs interrupts my thoughts. The desperate attempt to gasp for air makes me cough uncontrollably.
*Cough* *Cough* "Am-am I still alive?" *Cough* I attempt to say scratching my eyes and looking at my surroundings. That is when I realize the real reason for my coughing, the air was full of some sort of yellowish dust all around me. When I look what has stopped my falling I comprehend what that yellow dust was. I was on top of a big yellow mushroom with black dots. It was the size of a queen-size bed.
"Ewww, I am full of mushroom sed. haha, shroom sed." I said remembering biology class and how my friends and I laugh at that a particular lesson." I remember the day like it was yesterday. We were at summer school and it was pretty hot outside. The air conditioner of all the classroom was turn off to save energy. One of my favorite teachers, Mrs. Jackez was teaching us about how mushrooms reprod-"*Slap* I hit myself in the cheeks with both hands. " What the heck am I thinking. Focus man, focus. Hmm Oh no, Grandma?" I ask at loud finally realizing in the situation I was.
"Grand? Grand where are you?!" My grandma shushes me from behind a tree cleaning out leaves from her grayish hair.
"Thank god...wait?...What the fuck was that! Granma!" I shout remembering how she had pushed me out from the cliff of the mountain. " Don't you think you could have warned me abou- Ouch!!!!" I screamed as a sudden hit in my head stopped me.
"I have to talk to your mom about this lenguage of yours. But first, let get out of here and fast. The Timberwolves are still around" She said looking around.
"Ok Grand. First: Ouch!. Second: the wolves are up there. I really doubt they can do anything right now." I said while pointing up where we can see the wolves staring at us from above walking in circles around the edge. "And third:...... Please don't tell my mother"
Grandma was about to say something only to be interrupted by the howling of one of the wolves, a howl so loud that we needed to cover our ears. Seconds later we see how some of those creatures jump out the cliff only to crash on the ground turning them into pieces of timber.
"Jimmy, stay close," she ordered picking up some dry wood from the ground. That's when I finally know why grandma was so nervous, pieces of timber were slowly moving by its own and regroup to form its canine form. One by one started to stand up growling at us with a thirst for blood.
*shis**shis* I hear behind me the sound of a lighter trying to light followed by the bright light of a torch in Grand hands. As soon as the fire was up the beast takes steps back fearing the flame. One didn't need to be a genius to figure out why fire + living wood creature = bad... for them.
But the small torch wasn't enough, the wolves stop at the sight of the torch in its head but It's a larger number overwhelm us. When we put the fire close to one, three more take its place and little by little they were surrounding us with no way of running out.
"Grand, can't you do something else?" I asked with my grandmother behind me and extending my hands in defense position.
"Sorry Jimmy, I only have fuel to make one more torch and I don't think it will help us a lot." She said while shielding us from the wolves by moving the torch from left to right at the creatures face as we take steps back.
"That is not exactly what I mean, super Grandma," I said in a half-mocking half-serious tone. She smiles at that. The Timberwolves were slowly surrounding us and getting closer and closer.
"Hu hu hu, today I can't sweety, you need to help me this time. Jimmy, You need to take care of them one by one for us. I will keep you safe from the majority of them you just worry about one at the time. I'll have your back." She said winking at me with a confident smile.
"What!!!" I exclaim looking at the unchanged face of Grand trying to find out if that was just a cruel joke before our inevitable demise or if she was serious about it "God dammit I never know what is in her mind"
"Ready Jimmy here comes the first," she exclaimed while I see one of those wolfs trying to take a bite out at my face.
"Wait no, no no no. what I am supposed to~" Everything moves in slow motion as I look at the wooden wolf opening its mouth showing its sharp fangs near my throat, there is when my instinct kick in. Making a step forwards I place myself at the side of that thing avoiding the bite from those sharp wood fangs. Before it has the time to react at my sudden movement I fix my pose and raise my fist followed by a close punch to the solid piece of timber that made up its torso breaking it in half.
The torso seems to be the creature's weak point because as soon as I break it, the wolf implodes sending the remindings of its wooden body parts all over the place.
"Good job Jimmy. I see you keep with the lessons"
"OUCH OUCH OUCH!" I cried waving my hand trying to ease the pain."How do I even do that?" My grandma seems happy to have thought my self-defense, at least at first, Later on, when she left as she usually does, she sent an old lady from China who said that was an old friend of hers to keep teaching me a mix of different martial arts as well as a rigorous workout program. I wonder if she will get mad if she finds out I abandon the lessons. At least I didn't leave before I learn how to break pieces of wood boards with my beard hand, it is a cool party trick.
The sudden implosion of one of his comrades didn't seem to affect the wolves for the way they keep chasing at us. We were like this for a few minutes. I, breaking the wolves torso one by one and my Grand in my back scaring the rest with the torch. But we, or at least I, couldn't do this for much longer. My right hand was beginning to go numb and to get swollen.
"Oh God, we are going to die! We are going to die!" I said finally in tears as I saw more green eyes coming out from the dark of the forest." Grand, I can't do this anymore, more and more of those things keep coming. Do something!!" I shouted in fear.
"Yes, It seems that that last howl was a call for more of its pack." She replied holding me closer with his free arm struggling with the Timberwolves with the other.
A loud thunder was heard in the night's sky reminding us that it was still raining. The loud noise was followed by larger drops of water falling down the sky. Now with this and the fact that the torch was lit for almost an hour makes me fear that the fire, the only thing that stops those creatures to rip our heads off with a bite, will die soon.
"Jimmy, I saw what it seems to be a town near that path. just follow it and you should be safe." Grand pointed at a rarely seeing path before handing me the rest a fuel for a campfire, it was a can with a special gel that easy burns. She uses some of the gel to start the torch but she still needs some rope or something. she also gives me a lighter, a silver metal lighter with stars and twirls design in it with the initials J. H. inscribed in the side.
"Here, take this and don't move," I didn't have time to process what she meant by this as Grandma takes out a whistle out of her purse and blow it producing no hearable sound.
But it seems it wasn't the same for the Timberwolves as the whistle make them paralyzed for a few seconds. The green glow of his eyes was no longer there and each part of their wooden bodies moved independently of each other making a creaking sound of wood against wood.
At the same time. Grandma put herself on the left side of me and extend her left arm putting it so it touches my throat. Then she uses her right foot to push forward one of my own foot. This simple motion made me fall in my back. "I think she found out I skip my training" She then grabs a bush nearby and with one hand she takes it off from the ground with roots and all and put it on top of me as an attempt of camouflage.
While I was in the mud trying to recover from the buzzing in my ears caused by the hit in my head, Grandma was already behind the wolves. The glow in their eyes started to appear once more shaking off the state they were in and chasing up my grandma.
After a while, when finally my heart stops its crazy beating and I gather enough energy to stand up and look at the direction from where my Grand went. "Well, that's a pity but they will not be missed," I said while taking a quick look at myself. My cuts and bruises were all covered in mud and vegetation and when I try to take my first step, I feel a sharp pain from my bloody leg.
Fearing for an infection I seat near a tree which leaves give some decent protection from the rain. I took my first aid kit from my backpack and opened. It was full of bandages of all sizes and shapes, scissors, gloves eyes washes and more. I take out the disinfectant cream and use it on my leg that was the one in the worst state.
"Aaaaa, shit!! If I knew this will hurt that much I wouldn't have done that, this burns a lot." I put the cream back thinking that the other cuts can wait for the moment.
The lighting follows by the loud thunder could be still heard but less frequency now. At some point, the lightning emitted enough light so I was able to see houses at the distance."The town Grand told me. How far am I from the cabin?"
Trying to walk towards the town, a strange feeling passes over my head once again. A feeling telling me that I need to stay low and jump forward. Obeying my instincts, I oblige to this sensation rolling on the ground making me crash with a nearby tree. With my legs up in the air and looking upside down, I saw a honed wood claw where my head used to be. I even feel how those claws cut some of my hair."How the hell does a piece of wood can get so sharp?".
I stand up and start running towards the town without looking back but I still could hear the sound of the creature's footsteps on the muddy ground of the forest and the sound of breathing in my neck. Running as fast as I could, I didn't notice one of the roots from one of the trees in front of me was poking out of the ground until it was too late. I trip on it making my face meeting the ground.
"Oh crap, think, think what my grandma will do? Grand!" I said to myself as I laid in the ground staring at the wolf that was growling and taking small steps towards me.
As I was thinking of something, I put my good hand into the pocket of my coat realizing something. With the creature at mere inches of me, I kick its wooden chin stunting it for a few seconds. Enough time to throw the can with the fire fuel that was in my pocket. The creature seeing that catches the can in mid-air and crushes it with its fangs making its content to leak all over its face. "Perfect!" I smile with the lighter already lit in my hand and throwing it at the beast.
Even with the rain, the fire catches very easy burning the monster face with green flames. The wood wolf just moves its head up and down and jumps like a bull with a cowboy on its back trying to put the fire out. The last thing I saw of it was disappearing into the deeps of the forest.
With my heart running a mile per minute, I lay down staring at the cloudy sky trying to take a break. While I saw the night sky, I see what could be the biggest bird I ever see in my life. If I have to judge it by how far I think they were from me, I will say that they were at the size of a big dog, of those dogs that a kid could ride or maybe of a small horse.
I keep staring at the group of big birds that started flying towards the direction of the town." Oh !, that cloud looks like an elephant, hahaha funny" I laugh at myself. "Jesus! I think I have a concution" I thought while holding my head finally coming back into the real world. "I need to find help," I said finally walking towards the town.
I follow the path that leads me out of the forest. My body has cooled down allowing me to feel all the injuries I've collected so far forcing me in the need to walk with the aid of a stick I find laying around. Following the path, I stop at the view of a house near the edge of the forest away from the rest of the town.
The small house has its roof full of grass, bushes and other plants. A small lake with its own ecosystem passed by the house and all around the area where birdhouses hanging from trees and the house itself. Animals of all kinds were happily living on top and around the cottage. "I bet who lives there is an old lady who never gets married"
I walked slowly and as steady possible through a small bridge that passes through the body of water. As I walked, all the creatures in my surroundings run away alerted for my presence. All but a small white bunny who stand between me and the door.
"Hello little guy, is your caretaker here? I really need to use his, or her phone," I said to the little animal pretending he was going to answer me. We stand in front of each other for a while and the more I look at it the more I feel like if he was mad at me for some reason. I think I even see a mocking smile on its face.
"O....key? I am going to knock at the door then," I said getting closer to the door when all of the sudden I feel a pinch of pain in my shin that makes my jump away."OUCH! Dammit! I am going to kill that little bastard" I scream trying to kick the withe rat mouth out of my leg. With nothing else I could find, I throw the stick I was using to help me walk but the little rat jumps away dodging it and making the stick to bounce off from a rock directly into a window breaking it into pieces. "Oh... today is not my day," As everything happens I heard a small yep and the sound of running on wood floor from inside the house.
"S-sorry. I didn't do it on purpose. I promise I will pay for the window but I really need to use your phone if you have any. I had the craziest night and I need to call my parents and maybe the pol.....ice" I said while I see the silhouette of something running away towards the small town from the back of the house. "Perfect, I scare... whoever that was."
Since I was so tired mentally and physically, I didn't want to go after the owner of the house. I guess that I will apology later but now I need a phone. Guessing that the owner of the house lives alone I open the door slowly. For some reason, the door of the house was split in two, the downside and the upside which is the side I open first allowing me to see the inside of the house. It was dark but still, I could see some of the furniture and a stone fireplace in the living room.
"What is this? an Amish town or something? All the furniture seems old fashion." The one thing that stuck out the most was a big furniture in form of a ball of fur in the middle of the leaving room. As I keep staring at the ball of fur I detected small hints of breathing movements from it. What a shock was when the "ball" turns letting see his sharp claws and fangs when the giant grisly bear yawns at my direction.
"Nope, nope. So much nope. I had enough with the wood-wolves thank you very much. Maybe the owner of the house didn't run because of me after all" I thought as I slowly closed the door and turn around walking towards the town not before I stare at the bunny who bite me before, "And you, little ball of fur, you will pay for this later". For some reason, I feel the stare of the white rat gives me back with a smirk on his face that says something along the lines of 'whenever you want bitch'.
The town wasn't too far from the grizzly infested house. I just need it to walk a small stone bridge that was a couple of meters away and I was practically there. Old oil lanterns illuminated the seemingly desolated town allowing me to read the words carved in a big wood arch in front of the town.
"Welcome to Pony... ville? Ponyville? Really? What a weird name. But what an old fashion town it is." Looking around, all the houses and other structures were from a different era of time entirely. I have never seen houses like these before but in movies and history books.
"Hello!!!!!!! Is anybody there!!!!" I scream out loud at the empty streets of the town. Walking through a few streets I could see some shopping bags on the floor along with some other stuff. "Hellooooo!!!" I scream louder as I get closer to one house to see through a window to check if there was anybody there... nothing. Not even a hint of movement.
"Ok, this is starting to scare me out. HELLO!!!! CAN SOMEONE COME OUT PLEASE? I AM LOST AND I AM REALLY... hungry." I don't know why I scream the hungry part but at seeing a near apple stand I couldn't help it. Getting closing, I look at one apple and grab it to munch on it. "Don't worry I will pay!!" I shout out loud with my mouth full of the apple deliciousness, I was trying to convince myself that what I was doing wasn't stilling.
It was then that I hear the slamming of a door close. I quickly eat the apple with its core and all and run towards the sound seems to be originated. I didn't even notice the pain and fatigue in my body, I just wanted some answers and someone to help me.
*Knock-knock knock*" Hello? Is anybody there?" I knocked at the door of a strange building with the looks of a gingerbread house.
"Quick Hide. It is outside" I hear whispers inside the house.
"Ok, that's it!! I am seeking tired of this!!. I had a really bad day to not only you try to play hide and sick with me but also you dare to call me it" I shouted angrily as I try with all my strength to knock the door down not caring it hurt like hell. An overwhelming feeling of adrenaline clouded my mind as I try to kick the door with my injured knee.
When I finally the door forced open, I stood there agape. What I could see was something new for me, a strange pink creature standing in two hooves with cotton candy hair smiling and staring at me with her blue eyes.
"Welcome monster. Here, I have a present for you," I took a step back in surprise when the strange creature said in my own language. In fact, I was so surprised by it that I didn't even notice the big canon next to her nor I notice when it graves with her hoof a small rope attach to the canon.
"And please, GET OUT OF MR. AND MRS. CAKE'S IS CLOSING TIME!!!!" The creature screams out loud pulling a cord from the cannon followed by an explosion of streamers and confetti.
"What the hell ....blaa *cough* ... was that?" I asked stumbling back trying to hold the puke back as the pieces of paper were deep inside my throat.
"Hey what tha... *bonk* I try to say but something else attacks me from my left follow up by the sound of something whooshing through the air.
"Ha, ha. Take that!" The victory yell of a female raspy voice was heard from the top of the clouds.
The hit pushes me a few meters as the sensation of my adventure so far were painfully back. "Haa why in the hell is everything trying to kill me today," I said angrily trying to look at the culprit.
"Yea Rainbow, take that monster down!!!" I hear the voice of the puffy equine on the house sheering her. I stare angrily at the blue horse with wings and multicolor mane.
"So, would you give up peacefully or I have to make you?" The horse with wings gleed at me.
"Oh, You wanna dance Ha, I am going to dance Skittles!!" I scream up in the air trying to intimidate the prismatic flying equine to leave me alone. My injuries were bad and I shouldn't do this but my pride and anger overcome my better judgment. "No one hit me without at least an apology" I started running towards that creature until something hold my arms and keep them close to my sides.
"Oh-oo, No you won't." I hear a heavy country accent from a girl before a lasso graved me. When I turn, I saw another of those strange creatures, this time an orange one without wings like the pink one. It was using her tail as an arm to hold the rope and her mouth to pull me to her. "No pony. And Ah mean no pony steal my apples and get away with it"
The little horse was stronger than she looks, for much I was struggling I couldn't help it but slowly coming to her as she was pulling me. I could see that next to her were a group of other of its kind saying things between each other but I could make up what.
"Ok, you want me to come to you. I will come," I said as I try with all my strength to pull one last time. Somehow, I was able to pull the horse to my side of the rope for a second making her stumble a little but she quickly pulls back harder with her mouth but that was all part of the plan. When she pulls, instead of pulling back I run towards her. It helps me gain momentum making me able to do a big jump and take out my good knee ready to strike the creature in the face.
But as I was getting closer, I look at her eyes. For a quick moment, I manage to see her more clearly, her blond hair, her green eyes, her freckles and her look of scared when she saw me rapidly closing in. I couldn't do it. I simply couldn't. At the last moment, I retracted my knee and use my other leg to change my direction a little making me fall and rolling at her right side at mare centimeters to hit her. Doing that was very bad for me, I was moving faster than I could control. I was only able to stop when my face meets a wall of a nearby house.
"What in tarnation?" It was the last thing I heard from that mare. My ears were buzzing, my nose was bleeding, I was seeing stars and I was pretty sure my leg wasn't supposed to bend that way. The group of horses gets together around the orange one. My leg was killing me and I was seeing blurry. I feel like I was about to lose conscience. But even if all of that was happening to me, I try to stand up because my pride was stronger than my sense of self-preservation, I didn't t want to admit my defeat.
Supporting my self with my no-so-good-but-better-than-the-other leg and with a hand on the wall I scream at them: "And there is more where it comes from" I really wasn't well. My fuzzy eyesight wasn't able to detect figures, only colors at this point and I swear I saw another purple figure that wasn't there before closing into me. But before I try to scream "back off" A bright light followed by the sensation of something hard and cold surrounded my body.
"Am-am I dead?" I thought since I wasn't even able to move my jaw. The cold material surrounding me was stuck to my body and I wasn't able to move for even an inch. Figuring out that the fuzziness I was seeing wasn't only from my concussion in my head but from the thing around me. I closing my eyes waiting for a miracle.
Time pass for what I believe where hours but it could just as well be seconds as a strange tingling sensation pass through my broken leg. "Hum... Ohhhh Hahahaha. HAHAHAHAHA," I start laughing, the tickle was now spreading through all parts of my body, especially in my injured leg and knee as the thig surrounding me was getting looser.
When the realization that I could move hit me, I use my arms and legs to break what was confining me in place. With a loud Crack I free myself still laughing for the strange tickling sensation. "I - I feel amazing Hahaha!!!" I scream jumping in my used-to-be broken leg. All my injuries, even the swollen hand, was cured and I feel a great amount of adrenaline passing through my veins.
"Quick!!! Seized it before it hurt anypony," One of the new horses who have a horn and a wing scream follow up by the orange one, the pink one, and the prismatic hair one getting ready taking a pose like wanting to tackle me along with the purple one that just screamed at me. w
Sensing the immediate danger, I look around seeing some flower pots and start throwing them at the pastel color horses. Many of the creatures were dodging them. Some others I managing to strike them in the head forcing them to clean the soil from there eyes. Taking the opportunity, I grab the rope, that was still around my wrist somehow, and run towards the orange one.
I take advantage that she wasn't able to see to tie her legs together enable her to move. It was hard but I was able to manage it.
"Ha-what? You?.... You Ah retract everything ah said about you!!!!" She yells angry at me trying to free herself.
"Hey!!! Leave her alone!!!" The one with wings says approaching at high speed at me from the sky.
"Hey" I scream back. "Catch!" I said raising the immobile creature above my head. She quickly understood what I was about to do and get in position. Then I throw the blond one into the pegasus. Luckily she catches her but the weight seems to be too much for her for the way she slowly hit the ground with her back.
"Ok, who is ne - eee...?" I try to say as I duck an incoming projectile I feel approaching from my back. Turning, I saw the pink horse using her canon to throw some kind of pink mass like cake at me. "What? It is cake with frosting" I asked out loud as some of it splash at my mouth. I quickly hide behind some tree, judging that they were thrown from a cannon, I feel like is safe to assume that the cakes hurt a lot
"Yes Pinkie, get it distracted. I will I try to crystalize it again." The one with a horn said as the pink puffy one maintain throwing her pastries at me with an unchanging smile."I can see she is really enjoying this" She was at the complete opposite side of the unicorn having me in the middle. Her horn starts glowing like if she was about to throw a big attack at me.
"Fuck it," I said to myself as I run towards the canon. "I prefer death by cake than death by laser beam" I use my jacket as some sort of shield but it didn't last long for the creamy bullets. I try my best at dodging and rolling but I couldn;t help it but to get hit two or three times. Have you ever had a food fight with cake? and have you ever been hit in the face with one? That is exactly what I fell in my arm when one hit me. I almost fall off, Luckily it seems the pink menace had run out of ammunition.
When she stopped shooting, I took the opportunity. As I was running, I could see how she had put a wedding cake size onto the canon... somehow. It seems that she underestimate my speed because she notices I was closing in but she keep loading the canon regardless. When the canon finally was loaded it was too late. I get close to the tip of the canon and quickly push it upwards making it aim backward for her surprise. "Take a taste of your own cake," I said pulling the string that ignites the shoot. The shoot sends her flying in the air with the big pink wedding cake around her. I only hear how she scream as she was flaying.upwards.
"Pinkie!!!!" The one glowing with a purplish glow scream as it seems her attack was finally charged. With an angry expression, a laser quickly shot out from her horn. I couldn't react fast enough to dodge it so I use my hand as a shield.
The beam of lights surrounded me completely making my effort of shielding myself completely useless. But once all creatures that were still watching hears not a surprised and defeated yell as they expected all of them had their mouths wide open, even the one who was still fairing the light of beam.
"HAHA stop. It tickles" I said for the surprise of everyone, even me as the same sensation I had felt before was around my hand but stronger. I couldn't help it but to laughing, It was a strange sensation but a pleasant one.
I open my eyes when I was able to tolerate the tingling sensation without laughing, When I did I saw small crystal-like formation around my skin that shatters and fall in the ground as I move. Fearing it could be dangerous, I run towards the beam try to grab the horn trying to make it stop. But as soon grabbed hold of it, a small explosion sends me and her flying in opposite directions. We both landed on bushes
I quickly shake my hand trying to get rid of the glass still around my hand. When no glass was visible I look around to see who was still standing. I could see most of my opponents weren't standing up, one tied up, other stuck in a tree struggling to get out from a cake and other semi-unconscious on a bush. I notice that some of the horses weren't there. The only still standing in there four hooves was the rainbow hair one and the one with a horn and wings.
"So you are next?" I said smiling at the skittles hair as she was looking at me with a smug smile, I hate to admit but I was enjoying this, I wasn't an aggressive kid when I was younger, I didn't get into any real fight but I am an adrenaline junkie. I did everything to feel the rush pass through my veins. Skating, paintball war, mountain biking, bungee jumping, parachute jumping. The luxury to have parents with money I guess. And so far there wasn't anything that makes pumping the blood of my hart as fast as fighting and winning for my life.
I turn around to face my next opponent with a smile, With my blood pumping faster than I ever felt before, I see how she was scratching the ground with her hoof ready to ramming at me. I was doing the same. We stay still waiting for any kind of sign to attack.
"Rainbow Wait!!" And there we go. We heard a scream and we started to run into each other giving our best war cry ready to strike each other. Our eyes meet each other, screaming and seeing how little by little we were about to crash. I rise a hand making a fist. she seems like she was ready to do a headbutt "I am going to punch that skull of hers" I thought as we were getting closer and closer until we get so close that I could see her iris.
"Wait, stop!!!!!" A female voice screams as we fill the hit. *Whomp*
