I just wanted to catch a fish. That's it! And I end up coming back with some mutant horse...

Luke groaned as he approached his camp, fatigue slowly grinding away on his body. Although the pony was surprisingly light for it's size, carrying it for 10 minutes was certainly taking it's toll. Not to mention that he had just been chased by said pony and still had a prominent burning in his right leg to show for it. When he had gotten to his shelter, he placed the rainbow haired pony inside of it.

Hope that thing doesn't kill me when it wakes up. Whatever that thing is...

As he looked at the unconscious pony, he began to wonder what would happen once it woke up. I doubt it will be capable of hurting me for a while...stupid thing left a dent in a tree for fucks sake... When the pony groaned, Luke jumped a bit and got into a defensive stance, only to see that it was still unconscious but had sustained some potential serious injuries. Deciding to take a breather for himself, he sat down against a tree.

Damn, this stinging in my leg is starting to hurt a lot...

He rolled up his right jean leg and found that he had gotten a pretty bad cut across the back of his calf, no doubt from a stray branch he managed to run through when running away from that light blue menace. Sighing seeing how there was not much he could do about it, Luke rolled his pant leg down and checked around the rest of his body for anymore gashes or cuts.

Hm...nothing other than a few scratches and bruises here and there. That cut on my leg might be a hassle though.

Luke's stomach let out a growl, reminding him that food was a very big priority.

"Damn I ended up dropping my dinner at the end of my spear! Hm...maybe I can find it..." Luke said aloud as he began to walk towards where he threw his spear.

Back at the stream

As Rainbow Dash chased the odd creature into the Everfree Forest, the rest of the girls rushed to Pinkie.

"Pinkie, are you alright?" Twilight asked with concern.

"Well duh, why wouldn't I be?" Pinkie said, cheery as always.

"That creature was holding a weapon Pinkie! You shouldn't just approach something that could be so dangerous!"

"Well it didn't seem dangerous! Maybe a little surprised, but it didn't look like it was gonna hurt anypony!"

Twilight gave a heavy sigh, "Just...please be more careful Pinkie. We don't want to take any chances. We don't know anything about this creature."

"Fiiiine." Pinkie said with a hint of disappointment.

"Gosh what in tarnation was going through Rainbow's mind going and chasing that thing?" Applejack said.

"Well that...thing did have a weapon dear, and it was pointed directly at Pinkie." Rarity stated, "Seeing how impulsive Rainbow Dash can be...I'm not surprised she went after it. It is Rainbow Dash we're talking about."

"Well...what do we do now? Should try to catch up to them? Ah don't know if I like the idea of her being alone in the Everfree Forest...let alone with a creature we know nothing about."

"Seeing as how fast Rainbow Dash is, I doubt we would be able to find her in there. She could be on the other side of the forest by now for all we know" Twilight said, looking towards the woods. "Rainbow Dash is a strong mare, I'm sure we will see her soon, but for now we should inform Princess Celestia of the situation. Perhaps she has some knowledge as to what that thing is."

"Off to the library!" shouted Pinkie. As the girls began to walk to the library, Fluttershy spoke up. "Um, I'm gonna go back to my cottage for now...I haven't fed my squirrels yet and I'm sure they must be hungry."

"No problem sugar, we'll meet up with ya at the library when yer done."

As the girls and Fluttershy went their separate ways, Fluttershy took one last look at the Everfree forest, still very nervous for Rainbow Dash. I hope everything turns out- her thought was interrupted as she heard a familiar growl in the distance, coming from the entrance of the Everfree Forest. She gasped as she extended her wings and began to fly to the source of the growl.

-Luke's POV

Come on where the hell is that thing? I couldn't have thrown it far...

Luke was retracing his steps in an effort to find his dinner when he spotted the end of his spear in a nearby bush.

"Finally...I can get some food in my stomach. All I have to do now is start a fire and maybe set up a-" Luke's words were caught in his throat as he made eye contact with a bear no less than 20 feet away from him...staring at the fish at the end of his spear.

"Uh..." I just cant catch a break can I? "Nice bear..." Luke said shakily, placing the spear on the ground and backing away from it. The bear slowly walked up to the fish and sniffed at it, eventually taking it in it's teeth and looking back up at Luke, who was still slowly backing away from the bear. The bear walked forward letting out a low but loud growl, clearly not satisfied with the small fish it had received.

Well. If I wasn't dead before, I sure am now.

Luke continued to walk back and was eventually backed against a tree, petrified of the bear inching closer and closer to him. Within a matter of time the bear was within inches of Luke's face, breathing heavily. Luke shut his eyes and held his breath not wanting to see what happens next. Just as the bear opened it mouth, a gasp could be heard from the right of the bear.

"No! That's a bad Mr. Bear!" said the same voice Luke heard earlier, in almost a hushed yell. "You leave him alone! He didn't do anything to you!" Much to Luke's surprise, the bear let out a whimper. Wait, it whimpered? What is happening... The bear had backed off with it's head drooped, almost like a child who had just been caught stealing cookies from a cookie jar. "You should know better than to pick on others. You go back to the cottage now Mr.!"

As Luke laid against the tree he was just backed against, he watched as the bear walked off into the woods back near the stream with it's head still down. With Fluttershy seeing the bear off, she had looked back to the creature, who was clearly still in shock as to what had just happened. "It's ok...nothing is gonna-" she couldn't finish her sentence as the creature jumped to it's feet. Before she could say anything else, it bolted into the woods.

Luke was sprinting for the now third time today. This is insane! Nothing makes sense here! He kept running until he saw his camp come into view, eventually slowing down to catch his breath.

"God what do I do...I have no where to go, I have no food, I don't even know if this is real."

Luke sighed as he approached his shelter where he had put the...pony.

Why ponies? Why are there multicolored sentient horses running around all over the place? Why do these even exist?

"Ok...I'm just gonna lie down. Yup. I'm just gonna lie down and wake up in a hospital or something. This is all some weird fever dream. There is no way those stupid ponies are rea-"

When Luke looked inside of his shelter, he was met with a rather large pair of magenta eyes.

A large pair of angry magenta eyes at that.

Fuck.

Author's Note

I'm alive.