The Lost Forge

[my eyes are burning just from reading this]

I woke up early the only other thing awake were the birds. I headed on up to  the train but on my way there a Pegasus ran into me. She barley knock me over it felt like more like a small gust of wind hiting me. She was I light yellow with a pink tail and main her cutiemark were three butterflies. She said politely but too soft to understand “oh I’m so sorry I didn’t see you.” “It is all right, what is your name?” I said back. She just whispered to herself “uh… it is fluttershy” I just said “nice to meet you” because I somehow just knew she was too shy to speak up. I got on the train with my cart and headed to canterlot.

When I got there I saw tons of ponies many had signs with names on them. One said Smith I went on over and told him who I was. Then he looked at a picture and then showed me to his carriage. I saw tons of ponies staring at me. To them I was a dirty commoner in a high class carriage I bet they thought they should be in there instead of me. The funny part is they all look shocked when the guards let me in to canterlot castle. The driver helped me with my stuff and said “someone will show you to your room.” I thought “a bed room in canterlot castle wow!” A pony in a suit came u and said “oh you must be the black smith let me show you to the forge and then your room.”

The forge was huge and it lied in the castle catacombs. It was heated by hot magma to enrich the metal. The tools were as shiny as a diamonds well they were diamonds! But I trusted my tools with my life. After the forge he led me to my room. He then said this is your room the princess will see you tomorrow. When he left I sneaked down to the forge to get a head start. I tested all new designs like brighter designs for Princess Luna and darker ones for celestia. When I finished my work I went to go up to my room then I saw a missing brick in the brick wall. The rest of the walls were a ruff bark brown grey and it had one missing brick. the thing is I could have sworn it was there before. I looked into the hole were the brick was missing. It looked like it went far back, I then stupidly reached in there was a lever. I yanked on it several times on the seventh tug it broke off and flinging me back. The staircase leading out of the room shifted to the left leading to another staircase going down. I would have flicked the lever to fix the staircase but it broke off. So the only way out is going down or waste away waiting for help. I then descended the stairs.

Descending the stairs thinking who would have made such a weird staircase in a blacksmiths forge. Perhaps a long forgotten lunar forge that gives you a power that was Unknown to any of pony kind, or the most powerful ore that can be made in to anything! But in mid thought I released the torches on the walls lit them self’s as I walk by them on the walls of the damp narrow staircase. The bricks look like they were older the equestrian itself. I felt like the stairs would never end. On the way down I heard moans and creeks but I pushed on. After a bit the stairs finally flattened out to a hall way. The touches lit the walls less and less but they gave of the same amount of lite. The wall were getting darker I thought but I went on but later down the hall there was a split in the hall there was tree signs. The one on top of the others said “in life you will get choices some may be as simple as going left or right” One pointing to the left saying “left may be true but not right.” The one pointing right saying “sometimes being right can be wrong.” I thought about it for a bit. I remembered my wife being big on riddles she would ask me them all the time.

So I went left because they were both were dissing the right hallway. The hallway was dark so I grabbed one of the torches on the wall. The torch was wet but I could not tell what is was so I went down the hall with it in my mouth. It had a funny taste it was like copper but sweet and salty. As I went down the hall it started to get wider and opened to a larger unlit room. The floor started to get a splashy noise to it then all the sudden orbs of light just well pop in. starting at the other side of the round room they came around room getting closer to me reviling to me the reason way everything was wet and the walls were darker. At the top of the room it had ponies hanging on chains. That’s why the torch tasted like a sweet salty copper. Blood tastes coppery because of the copper ions that are dissolved in it. Many metals dissolved in water give off ions. Copper is used to help transmit nerve signals. Blood tastes like salty and sweet because of the mixture of salts and sugars that the body uses to live. It all just hit me in the face then and there I should have known my wife was a doctor after all.

But the only another thing in the room was a large forge on the front it said “a good blacksmith can forge many things. A great one can forge almost anything but with this forge I can forge the heart’s desires. I went over to get a closer look the only thing I saw was my wife lying there. I don’t know how she got here but oh celestia why? Why? How could you let this happen I wanted her back but not like this. I looked at her dead body you know how ponies said a pony looks peaceful when they are dead... they don’t she just looked like some pony just blow out a candle. Her wings where spread out,  her pink coat was shining like a freshly forged sword and her main and tail were pink with darker pink streaks. I never really I mean really looked at her cutiemark. It is a heart with a needle in the middle of it with a red cross on it. She is I just don’t know is this really my heart’s desire. I love her but I wish she was with me well living so I’m just sitting here writing this. Next to her was an ink, quill and a bottle with some paper. I found a hole in the wall I am putting this letters in the bottle but I guess that is my heart’s desire to. If you find this remember me, find me or tell pinky pie I wish I met her sooner because maybe I would have been happier in my life. One last thing if you do find this in time I am going to spend the last time of my life here with my wife but If anypony can save me please do. Goodbye world

            ~signed Smith